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Trophoblastic growth, which may be gestational or nongestational in origin. Trophoblastic neoplasia resulting from pregnancy is often described as gestational trophoblastic disease to distinguish it from germ cell tumours which frequently show trophoblastic elements, and from the trophoblastic differentiation which sometimes occurs in a wide variety of epithelial cancers. Gestational trophoblastic growth has several forms, including hydatidiform mole and choriocarcinoma.
(12 Dec 1998)
tropho-, trophoblast, trophoblastic, trophoblastic lacuna < Prev | Next > trophoblastic operculum, trophoblastic tumour
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