Immature Gastric Teratoma in an Infant: A Case Report

Gastric teratomas are extremely rare neoplasms and almost exclusively benign. They occur predominantly in males and generally present as a palpable abdominal mass. To our knowledge, only one adult case has been described in the Korean literature. We report a case in which an immature gastric teratom...

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Autores principales: Yoon, Seong Eon, Goo, Hyun Woo, Jun, Sun-young, Lee, In Cheol, Yoon, Chong Hyun
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Publicado: The Korean Radiological Society 2000
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2718207/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11752961
http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2000.1.4.226
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author Yoon, Seong Eon
Goo, Hyun Woo
Jun, Sun-young
Lee, In Cheol
Yoon, Chong Hyun
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Goo, Hyun Woo
Jun, Sun-young
Lee, In Cheol
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description Gastric teratomas are extremely rare neoplasms and almost exclusively benign. They occur predominantly in males and generally present as a palpable abdominal mass. To our knowledge, only one adult case has been described in the Korean literature. We report a case in which an immature gastric teratoma in a 3-month-old boy was revealed by CT and US.
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spelling pubmed-27182072009-07-30 Immature Gastric Teratoma in an Infant: A Case Report Yoon, Seong Eon Goo, Hyun Woo Jun, Sun-young Lee, In Cheol Yoon, Chong Hyun Korean J Radiol Case Report Gastric teratomas are extremely rare neoplasms and almost exclusively benign. They occur predominantly in males and generally present as a palpable abdominal mass. To our knowledge, only one adult case has been described in the Korean literature. We report a case in which an immature gastric teratoma in a 3-month-old boy was revealed by CT and US. The Korean Radiological Society 2000 2000-12-31 /pmc/articles/PMC2718207/ /pubmed/11752961 http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2000.1.4.226 Text en Copyright © 2000 The Korean Radiological Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Yoon, Seong Eon
Goo, Hyun Woo
Jun, Sun-young
Lee, In Cheol
Yoon, Chong Hyun
Immature Gastric Teratoma in an Infant: A Case Report
title Immature Gastric Teratoma in an Infant: A Case Report
title_full Immature Gastric Teratoma in an Infant: A Case Report
title_fullStr Immature Gastric Teratoma in an Infant: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Immature Gastric Teratoma in an Infant: A Case Report
title_short Immature Gastric Teratoma in an Infant: A Case Report
title_sort immature gastric teratoma in an infant: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2718207/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11752961
http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2000.1.4.226
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