Table 1 Clinical characteristics of primary choriocarcinoma of colon
From: Primary choriocarcinoma of the colon: a case report and review of the literature
Case | Sex and age (years) | Location | HCG (mIU/ml) | Metastases on admission | Associated with adenocarcinoma? | Treatment | Survival time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Park and Reid 1980 [5] | F/49 | S | NS | Liver lung | Y | Surgery | 1 month |
Nguyen 1982 [6] | M/74 | S | 400 | None | Y | Surgery | 10 weeks |
Ordonez and Luna 1984 [7] | F/35 | Cecum | 1,612 | Regional lymph nodes, liver | Y | Surgery | 2 months |
Kubosawa et al. 1984 [8] | F/50 | S | 230,000 | None | Y | Surgery | 4 months |
Metz et al. 1985 [9] | F/42 | S | 154,000 | Regional lymph nodes, liver, lung spleen | Y | None | |
Lind and Haghighi 1986 [10] | M/42 | A | 610,000 | Liver | N | Surgery | 1 month |
Tokisue et al. 1996 [11] | F/29 | R | 49,000 | Lung | Y | Surgery, chemotherapy | 11 months |
Kiran et al. 2001 [12] | M/68 | R | 700,000 | Regional lymph nodes, liver | Y | None | |
Le et al. 2003 [13] | M/73 | A | 146,000 | Liver, lung, brain | N | None | 10 days |
Verbeek et al. 2004 [14] | F/54 | R | 6,831(P) | Liver, lung | Y | Surgery, chemotherapy | 8 months |
Froylich et al. 2010 [15] | F/57 | Descending colon | 13,000 (P) | Lung | N | Surgery, chemotherapy | 16 months |
Harada et al. 2012 [4] | F /58 | S | 2,420 | None | Y | Surgery, chemotherapy | More than 60 months |
Present case 2012 | M/38 | A | 3.38 | Regional lymph nodes, liver | N | Surgery, chemotherapy | More than 6 months |