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Gestational Trophoblastic Disease

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Gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) includes disorders of placental development (hydatidiform mole) and neoplasms of the trophoblast (choriocarcinoma, placental site trophoblastic tumor [PSTT], and epithelioid trophoblastic tumor).1;2 The recent classification of these lesions by the World Health Organization (WHO) clearly defines the different histologic forms of GTD (Table 4.1).

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