Peritonitis Caused by Rupture of Infected Retroperitoneal Teratoma

Retroperitoneal teratomas are usually asymptomatic, though there have been isolated reports of retroperitoneal teratomas presenting as intra-abdominal abscesses and peritonitis in adults. A 7-year-old girl who had presented with acute abdomen due to ruptured retroperitoneal teratoma is reported.

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Autor principal: Sarin, Yogesh Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2012
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3418036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22953296
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description Retroperitoneal teratomas are usually asymptomatic, though there have been isolated reports of retroperitoneal teratomas presenting as intra-abdominal abscesses and peritonitis in adults. A 7-year-old girl who had presented with acute abdomen due to ruptured retroperitoneal teratoma is reported.
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spelling pubmed-34180362012-09-05 Peritonitis Caused by Rupture of Infected Retroperitoneal Teratoma Sarin, Yogesh Kumar APSP J Case Rep Case Report Retroperitoneal teratomas are usually asymptomatic, though there have been isolated reports of retroperitoneal teratomas presenting as intra-abdominal abscesses and peritonitis in adults. A 7-year-old girl who had presented with acute abdomen due to ruptured retroperitoneal teratoma is reported. EL-MED-Pub 2012-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3418036/ /pubmed/22953296 Text en Copyright © 2012 Sarin YK http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Peritonitis Caused by Rupture of Infected Retroperitoneal Teratoma
title Peritonitis Caused by Rupture of Infected Retroperitoneal Teratoma
title_full Peritonitis Caused by Rupture of Infected Retroperitoneal Teratoma
title_fullStr Peritonitis Caused by Rupture of Infected Retroperitoneal Teratoma
title_full_unstemmed Peritonitis Caused by Rupture of Infected Retroperitoneal Teratoma
title_short Peritonitis Caused by Rupture of Infected Retroperitoneal Teratoma
title_sort peritonitis caused by rupture of infected retroperitoneal teratoma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3418036/
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