Tags: Disease.

Placental site trophoblastic tumor is a form of gestational trophoblastic disease which is thought to arise from intermediate trophoblast.It may secrete human placental lactogen (human chorionic somatomammotropin) and result in a false-positive pregnancy test.Placental Site Trophoblastic Tumor is a monophasic neoplasm of the implantation site intermediate trophoblast and usually a benign lesion which comprises less than 2% of all gestational trophoblastic proliferations.

Loading...

This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Placental site trophoblastic tumor"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.