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Methotrexate-induced Hemothorax in a Woman with Low-risk Metastatic Gestational Trophoblastic Disease

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Publisher Elsevier
Date 2019 Dec 3
PMID 31788529
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Abstract

•Patients with invasive mole have a risk of bleeding to fragility and vascularity of the tumor.•Some patients may experience life-threatening bleeding.•Chemotherapy of patients with invasive/metastatic mole may induce bleeding.•In our patient with pulmonary metastatic mole, massive hemorrhage occurred 2 h after the first dose of MTX.•Our patient was successfully treated with partial resection of the bleeding tumor and additional 2 cycles of MTX.

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