Abstract
Primary choriocarcinoma of the ovary arising, presumably, from a germ cell is extremely rare. The patient, a 16 year old girl who presented with dysuria and frequency of micturition developed fatal haemoperitoneum due to rupture of a pure primary nongestational ovarian choriocarcinoma.
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