RESIDUAL TROPHOBLASTIC DISEASE IN ASSOCIATION WITH PARTIAL HYDATIDIFORM MOLE

  • 1 January 1981
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 57  (3) , 392-394
Abstract
A 10-yr retrospective study was carried out on [human] cases diagnosed as hydatidiform mole. Strict morphologic criteria established in a previous report were used to study the association of the partial mole syndrome with residual trophoblastic disease. Of the total of 138 cases available, 13 were partial moles, one of which was followed by trophoblastic disease that required chemotherapy. This subsequently proved to be an invasive (partial) mole, the 1st example of its kind to be verified by pathology. The extent of the association between partial mole and subsequent trophoblastic disease and the spectrum of the pathologic lesions actually underlying the latter remain to be determined by further retrospective and prospective studies.

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