Mole, complete hydatidiform

TCDD contaminated herbicides as compared to a group of Ho Chi Minh City residents presumably never exposed to 2,3,7,8-TCDD-contaminated herbicides. In contrast, a case-control study by Ha et al. (1996) did not find a significant association between exposure to 2,3,7,8-TCDD-contaminated herbicides and the occurrence of complete hydatidiform mole or choriocarcinoma among women living in southern Vietnam. 

Fan JB, Surti U, Taillon-Miller P, Hsie L, Kennedy GC, Hoffner L, Ryder T, Mutch DG, Kwok PY. Paternal origins of complete hydatidiform moles proven by whole genome single-nucleotide polymorphism haplotyping. Genomics 2002 79 58-62. 

Ayhan A, Tuncer ZS, Halilzade H, Kucukali T. Predictors of persistent disease in women with complete hydatidiform mole. J Reprod Med 1996 41 591-594. 

Using ancillary diagnostic techniques, including cytogenetics and assays for DNA ploidy (see the Genomic Applications section), it has become evident that many early complete hydatidiform moles have historically been misdiagnosed as non-molar abortuses or partial moles. This has led to the mistaken impression that the... 

Castrillon DH, Sun DQ, Weremowicz S, et al. Discrimination of complete hydatidiform mole from its mimics by immunohistochemistry of the paternally imprinted gene product p57KIP2. Am J Surg Pathol. 2001 25 1225-1230. 

Fisher RA, Hodges MD, Rees HC, et al. The maternally transcribed gene p57(KIP2) (CDNKIC) is abnormally expressed in both androgenetic and biparental complete hydatidiform moles. Hum Mol Genet. 2002 11 3267-3272. 

Keep D, Zaragoza MV, Hassold T, et al. Very early complete hydatidiform mole. Hum Pathol. 1996 27 708-713. 

Kim MJ, Kim KR, Ro JY, et al. Diagnostic and pathogenetic significance of increased stromal apoptosis and incomplete vas-culogenesis in complete hydatidiform moles in very early pregnancy periods. Am J Surg Pathol. 2006 30 362-369. 

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