Resumen
El coriocarcinoma es una variante muy vascularizada, invasiva y poco común de la enfermedad trofoblástica gestacional. Es potencialmente fatal sin tratamiento adecuado y se caracteriza por la proliferación maligna de tejido trofoblástico con una alta tasa de metástasis.
Se presenta el caso de una paciente joven con hemorragia intracerebral como primera manifestación de un coriocarcinoma metástasico. Se describen las características clínicas e imagenológicas y se hace una revisión de la literatura actual, con énfasis en los detalles más relevantes respecto al diagnóstico diferencial de la hemorragia intracerebral de presentación atípica y el tratamiento más apropiado.
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