On the recognition of malignant chorionic epithelioma of the lungs

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Among malignant neoplasms of the lungs, chorionepithelioma occupies a somewhat peculiar position both in its pathogenesis and in its clinical course. For the first time, chorionepithelioma was described by the Swede Netzel in 1872 as a tumor of the placenta. Further research by Nikiforov, Pokrovsky, Zenger, Marshan, Pfeifer, and others, finally clarified the origin of this tumor from the epithelium of the villi and its direct connection with pregnancy

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D. N. Kutsygin.

Propedeutic therapeutic clinic (director - prof. Koritsky) Dnepropetrovsk Medical Institute

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