CHORIOCARCINOMA IN MOTHER AND INFANT

Abstract

Maternal choriocarcinoma after a term pregnancy is unusual,¹and choriocarcinoma in the newborn is rare.²The only report found in the literature of choriocarcinoma in both mother and infant is that by Buckell and Owen.³In their case the lesion was diagnosed at autopsy in the infant at 7 weeks of age and by hysterectomy in the mother at about three months post partum. A second such case is reported here. <h3>Report of a Case</h3> A 3-month-old infant was admitted to the Cleveland Clinic on May 26, 1956. When she was one month old, Dr. Robert K. Gardner, of Canton, Ohio, noticed a small red nodule in the middle of the upper anterior alveolar ridge. This nodule had a tendency to bleed and then it almost completely disappeared. It had been cauterized once with silver nitrate but had recurred luxuriantly (fig. 1,<i>left</i>). When the infant was