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Presentation is most commonly with vaginal bleeding which may follow some months (or years) after childbirth or abortion.

Other symptoms include general malaise and amenorrhoea - due to excess beta-hCG - and evidence of metastatic disease, for example:

  • haemoptysis, cough, dyspnoea - from lung metastasis
  • headache, dizziness, faints - from CNS involvement
  • rectal bleeding - from GIT lesions

The uterus is usually enlarged.

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