Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 176.
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Pregnancy and Neoplasia.- On the Nature of Gestational Trophoblastic Disease.- Exposure to Chemical Carcinogens During Pregnancy: Consequences for Mother and Conceptus.- Immunology, Gestation, and Neoplasia.- Genetic Origin, Immunobiology, and Gonadotropin Expression in Trophoblast and Nontrophoblast Neoplasms.- Immunology in Genesis of Partial and Total Hydatidiform Mole.- Complement System in Abnormal Pregnancy and Chorionic Neoplasia: Immunotherapy and Chemotherapy of Chorionic Neoplasia.- Placental Senescence.- Genetic Origin of Trophoblast Neoplasms.- Complete and Partial Hydatidiform Moles: Cytogenetic and Morphological Aspects.- Genetic Studies on Hydatidiform Moles.- Epidemiologic Aspects of Trophoblastic Neoplasms.- Epidemiology of Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasm at the Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia.- Epidemiologic Aspects of Gestational Trophoblastic Diseases in Ibadan, Nigeria.- Epidemiology of Trophoblast Disease in Africa - Lagos.- Human Chorionic Gonadotropin.- Immunochemistry of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin.- New Horizons in hCG Detection.- The Carbohydrate on Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Produced by Cancer Cells.- Paradoxical Effect of Antibodies Against Chorionic Gonadotropin on BeWo Choriocarcinoma Cells In Vitro and In Vivo: Evidence for Heterogeneity of Cell Types.- The Surface Charge of Cells Producing hCG.- The Role of Trophoblast Differentiation in the Control of the hCG and hPL Genes.- Clinical Applications of hCG.- Clinical Staging.- A Proposal on the Clinical Staging of Malignant Trophoblastic Neoplasms Based on the Study of Process of Development of the Disease.- Chemotherapy and Clinical Management.- The Role of Methotrexate in the Chemotherapy of Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasms.- Re-Evaluation of 5-Fluorouracil as a Single Agent for Gestational Malignant Trophoblastic Neoplasms.- Management of Patients with Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasia: Experience of the Southeastern Regional Center.- The Role of Regional Centers for Gestational Trophoblastic Disease.- The Study and Treatment of Gestational Trophoblastic Diseases at the Brewer Trophoblastic Disease Center, 1962-1979.- Pitfalls in the Management of Trophoblastic Disease in Africa.- The Problems of Management of Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasms at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City, Nigeria.- Ten Years' Experience with Trophoblastic Tumors in Portugal.- Abstracts First World Congress on Trophoblast Neoplasms October 25-27, 1982 University of Nairobi Medical School Nairobi, Kenya.- Contributors.