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Table 2 Review of colon choriocarcinoma cases

From: Primary colon adenocarcinoma with choriocarcinoma differentiation: a case report and review of the literature

Case (N = 32)

Sex/age (years)

Primary tumor

Metastatic tumor

Peak serum β-hCG (mIU/ml)

Treatment/management

Survival (months)

Location

Histology

Location

Histology

Park and Reid 1980 [1]

F/49

Sigmoid

A + C

Liver, lung, diaphragm, rLN, dLN

C

NR

Palliative resection with colostomy

3.5

Nguyen 1982 [2]

M/74

Sigmoid

A + C

Liver

NR

186,000

Laparotomy with sigmoidectomy

2.5

Ordóñez and Luna 1984 [3]

F/35

Ascending/cecum

A + C

Liver, lung, pleura, pericardium, rLN, dLN, bone

C

1612

Explorative laparotomy with right hemicolectomy

3

Kubosawa et al. 1984 [4]

F/50

Sigmoid

A + C

Liver, lung, dLN

C

230,000

Hartmann operation with colostomy

1

Metz et al. 1985 [5]

F/42

Sigmoid

A + C

Liver, lung, spleen, rLN, dLN

A + C

154,000

Explorative laparotomy

1

Lind and Haghighi 1986 [6]

M/42

Ascending

C

Liver, lung, spleen, bone, dLN, kidneys, brain

C

610,000

Laparotomy

Bleomycin + vinblastine + cisplatin

Whole-brain irradiation

1

Ostör et al. 1993 [7]

F/28

Rectum

A + C

Liver, rLNs

C + YS

1.4 × 106

Anterior resection

EMA + leucovorin (one dose)

3

Rodilla et al. 1995 [8]

M/84

Rectum

C

rLN

C

5

Local radiotherapy

Cyclophosphamide + doxorubicin (four cycles)

Laparotomy with rectosigmoidectomy

3.5

Tokisue et al. 1996 [9]

F/29

Rectum

A + C

Lung, brain

NR

49,000

EMA

Surgical resection

EMA + cisplatin + doxorubicin (two cycles)

Whole-brain irradiation

10

Kim et al. 1997 [10]

F/66

Ascending

A + C

NR

NR

NR

Surgical resection

NR

Oh et al. 1997 [11]

M/60

Sigmoid

A + C

Liver, lung, thyroid, brain, larynx, rLN

C

8772

Sigmoidectomy

MTX + vincristine + VP16 + leucovorin (six cycles)

Whole-body radiation

15

Kiran et al. 2001 [12]

M/68

Rectum

A + C

Liver, rLN

A + C

>  700,000

Hartmann procedure

Total colectomy

NR

Petricek, 2001 [13]

M/29

Transverse

A + C + YS

Liver, rLN, dLN

YS

729 μg/L

None

6 days

Le et al. 2003 [14]

M/73

Ascending

C

Lung, brain, kidney, pancreas, rLN, descending colon

C

146,000

None

10 days

Verbeek et al. 2004 [15]

F/54

Rectum

A + C

Liver, lung

C

102,000

Surgical resection

VIP-cisplatin (four cycles)

Thoracotomy with resection of residual lung metastases

8

Jeong et al. 2007 [16]

M/52

Rectum

A + C

Liver, lung, rLN

C

42,910

Abdominoperineal resection

BEP-cisplatin

1.5

Kawahara et al. 2009 [17]

M/62

Ascending/cecum

A + C + YS

Liver, intramural, dLN

C + YS

NR

Right hemicolectomy

5-FU via hepatic arterial infusion

4

Froylich et al. 2010 [18]

F/57

Descending

C

Lung, bone, brain

A + C

13,000

Left colectomy

VIP-cisplatin + mesna (four cycles)

Bilateral upper lobectomies

16

Gifford et al. 2010 [19]

F/33

Colon (unspecified)

C

Liver, lung, omentum

NR

116,725

Chemotherapy, unspecified (several cycles)

4.5

Harada et al. 2012 [20]

F/58

Sigmoid

A + C

None

2420

Hartmann operation

Mitomycin C

EMA

UFT + leucovorin (ten cycles)

60+

Jiang et al. 2013 [21]

M/36

Ascending

C

Liver, rLN

C

10,000

Colectomy

BEP-cisplatin

6+

Maehira et al. 2013 [22]

M/68

Sigmoid

A + C

Liver, rLN

C

3929 ng/ml

Sigmoidectomy

mFOLFOX6

mFOLFOX6 + bevacizumab (eight cycles)

FOLFIRI + bevacizumab

9

Mardi et al. 2014 [23]

F/54

Rectum

A + C

rLN

NR

4568

Radical resection

5-FU + leucovorin

50 days

Tsujimoto et al. 2014 [24]

M/38

Sigmoid

A + C

Liver, adrenals, peritoneum

NR

1.32 ng/ml

Sigmoidectomy

mFOLFOX6 + bevacizumab

59 days

Julián et al. 2015 [25]

M/45

Sigmoid

A + C

Liver, rLN

A + C

22,288

BEP-cisplatin (two cycles)

Exploratory laparotomy with palliative colostomy

3

Oh et al. 2015 [26]

F/61

Sigmoid

A + C

Liver

NR

35

FOLFIRI + bevacizumab (five cycles)

FOLFOX (three cycles)

13

Koelzer et al. 2016 [27]

F/61

Cecum

C

Liver, peritoneum, spleen, uterus, ovary, rectum, bone

NR

70,173

Right hemicolectomy

XELOXIRI + bevacizumab (two cycles)

BEP

Carboplatin + bleomycin

Ifosfamide + vinblastine

Surgical tumor debulking

Paclitaxel (two cycles)

34

Parker et al. 2016 [28]

F/51

Ascending

A + C

Liver, mesentery, dLN

NR

96,000

EMA/CO

NR

Pezzuto et al. 2017 [29]

M/47

Cecum

C

Lung, brain

NR

NR

Colectomy with lymph node dissection

NR-”died in a little time”

Iliev et al. 2018 [30]

−−/54

Ascending

C

rLN

C

67.1

Extended right hemicolectomy

EMA (3 months)

12+

Fang et al. 2019 [31]

F/29

Ascending

C

Lung, vertebrae

NR

NR

None

Few days

Our patient

F/26

Sigmoid

A + C

Liver, lung

A + C

916,335

Sigmoidectomy

FOLFOX (one dose)

EMA/CO (14 cycles)

FOLFOX + bevacizumab (5 cycles)

FOLFIRI + bevacizumab

TBD

  1. Abbreviations: A adenocarcinoma, BEP bleomycin + etoposide (VP16) + platinum, C choriocarcinoma, dLN distant lymph nodes, EMA/CO etoposide + methotrexate (MTX) + actinomycin D ± cyclophosphamide + vincristine, FOLFIRI folinic acid + fluorouracil (5FU) + irinotecan, FOLFOX folinic acid + fluorouracil (5FU) + oxaliplatin, NR not reported, rLN regional lymph nodes, TBD to be determined, UFT uracil + tegafur, VIP etoposide (VP16) + ifosfamide + cisplatin, XELOXIRI capecitabine, oxaliplatin, irinotecan, YS yolk sac