Giant Intrapulmonary Teratoma: A Rare Case

Teratomas are tumors composed of tissues derived from more than one germ cell line. Pulmonary teratomas are rare and commonly involve the upper lobe of the left lung. Criteria for pulmonary origin are the exclusion of a gonadal or other extragonadal primary site and origin entirely within the lung....

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Autores principales: Dar, Rayees Ahmad, Mushtaque, Majid, Wani, Sabiya Hamid, Malik, Rayees Ahmed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3420695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22937423
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/298653
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author Dar, Rayees Ahmad
Mushtaque, Majid
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description Teratomas are tumors composed of tissues derived from more than one germ cell line. Pulmonary teratomas are rare and commonly involve the upper lobe of the left lung. Criteria for pulmonary origin are the exclusion of a gonadal or other extragonadal primary site and origin entirely within the lung. We report a case of a giant pulmonary teratoma in a 2-year-old male child and review the relevant literature.
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spelling pubmed-34206952012-08-30 Giant Intrapulmonary Teratoma: A Rare Case Dar, Rayees Ahmad Mushtaque, Majid Wani, Sabiya Hamid Malik, Rayees Ahmed Case Rep Pulmonol Case Report Teratomas are tumors composed of tissues derived from more than one germ cell line. Pulmonary teratomas are rare and commonly involve the upper lobe of the left lung. Criteria for pulmonary origin are the exclusion of a gonadal or other extragonadal primary site and origin entirely within the lung. We report a case of a giant pulmonary teratoma in a 2-year-old male child and review the relevant literature. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3420695/ /pubmed/22937423 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/298653 Text en Copyright © 2011 Rayees Ahmad Dar et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3420695/
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