Cancer in pregnant women and its extension to fetoplacental unit
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https://doi.org/10.18597/rcog.455Keywords:
metastasis, fetoplacental unit, pregnancy, cancer, vertical transmissionAbstract
Due to the rare simultaneous presentation of cancer during pregnancy and a fetoplacental unit being affected by such pathology is even rarer then this present review sought for better understanding regarding placental and foetal units being affected by malign pathologies which could compromise pregnancy. Different databases were searched (i.e. Pubmed, Ovid, Elsevier and Cochrane) as were medical texts and books. Findings in the medical literature were extremely limited, basically dealing with case-reports and case series found by a bibliographic search.
Only 14 cases of maternal-foetal trans-placenta metastasis have been documented since the first report of hepatic carcinoma metastasis of the placenta and foetus described in 1866 and only just over 50 cases of malign maternal diseases involving metastasis of the placenta.
Author Biographies
Eugenia Corredor-Sánchez
Marcos Castillo
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