teratoma
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Key facts
- Medical condition.name
- Teratoma (Tumour)
- Medical condition.image
- Mature cystic teratoma of ovary.jpg
- Medical condition.caption
- A small (4 cm) dermoid cyst of an ovary, discovered during cesarean section
- Medical condition.field
- Gynecology, oncology
- Medical condition.symptoms
- Minimal, painless lump
- Medical condition.complications
- Ovarian torsion, testicular torsion, hydrops fetalis
- Medical condition.types
- Mature, immature
- Medical condition.causes
- Unknown
- Medical condition.diagnosis
- Tissue biopsy
- Medical condition.differential
- Lipoma, dermoid, myelomeningocele
- Medical condition.treatment
- Surgery, chemotherapy
- Medical condition.frequency
- 1 in 30,000 newborns (coccyx)
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
30,351 papers- Adult sacrococcygeal teratoma: A review.Medicine · 2022
- Mature teratoma of liver in an adult male patient.Indian journal of pathology & microbiology · 2023
- [Ovarian teratoma in children. Clinical case and review of the literature].Revue medicale de Liege · 2022
- Primary immature teratoma of the thigh: a review.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2023
- Gastric Teratoma in Children: A Report of Two Cases and Review of Literature.African journal of paediatric surgery : AJPS · 2024
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- disease
- Image
- Mature cystic teratoma of ovary.jpg
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- Commons category
- Teratomas
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C3403
- health specialty
- oncology
- ICPC 2 ID
- Y78
- exact match
- identifiers.org/doid/DOID:3307
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- WikiProject Medicine
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Encyclopedic overview
28 sectionsContents
- Symptoms
- Cause and diagnosis
- Treatment
- Epidemiology
- Types
- Immature teratoma
- Gliomatosis peritoneii
- Dermoid cyst
- Fetus ''in fetu'' and fetiform teratoma
- ''Struma ovarii''
- Epignathus
- Fetal teratomas
- Complications
- Pathophysiology
- Hypotheses of origin
- Diagnosis
- Classification
- Malignant transformation
- Extraspinal ependymoma
- Treatment
- Surgery
- Chemotherapy
- Follow-up
- Epidemiology
- Other animals
- Use in stem cell research
- References
- External links
A teratoma is a tumor made up of several types of tissue, such as hair, muscle, teeth, or bone. Teratomata typically form in the tailbone (where it is known as a sacrococcygeal teratoma), ovary, or testicle.
==Symptoms== Symptoms may be minimal if the tumor is small. A testicular teratoma may present as a painless lump. Complications may include ovarian torsion, testicular torsion, or hydrops fetalis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “teratoma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.