Sacrococcygeal Teratoma with Yolk Sac Component in a Neonate

Sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT) is the most common congenital tumor in neonates. SCT may be benign (mature and immature) or malignant. Malignancy is rare in SCT diagnosed before 2 months of age. Here, we describe a neonate having a mature teratoma with a focus of malignant yolk sac tumor within and th...

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Autores principales: Chandrasekhar Khanolkar, Ashwini, Chirag Thakkar, Nirali, Kumar Sarin, Yogesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4524204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26290815
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author Chandrasekhar Khanolkar, Ashwini
Chirag Thakkar, Nirali
Kumar Sarin, Yogesh
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description Sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT) is the most common congenital tumor in neonates. SCT may be benign (mature and immature) or malignant. Malignancy is rare in SCT diagnosed before 2 months of age. Here, we describe a neonate having a mature teratoma with a focus of malignant yolk sac tumor within and the difficulties faced in its management.
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spelling pubmed-45242042015-08-19 Sacrococcygeal Teratoma with Yolk Sac Component in a Neonate Chandrasekhar Khanolkar, Ashwini Chirag Thakkar, Nirali Kumar Sarin, Yogesh J Neonatal Surg Case Report Sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT) is the most common congenital tumor in neonates. SCT may be benign (mature and immature) or malignant. Malignancy is rare in SCT diagnosed before 2 months of age. Here, we describe a neonate having a mature teratoma with a focus of malignant yolk sac tumor within and the difficulties faced in its management. EL-MED-Pub 2015-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4524204/ /pubmed/26290815 Text en Copyright: © 2015 JNS 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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Chandrasekhar Khanolkar, Ashwini
Chirag Thakkar, Nirali
Kumar Sarin, Yogesh
Sacrococcygeal Teratoma with Yolk Sac Component in a Neonate
title Sacrococcygeal Teratoma with Yolk Sac Component in a Neonate
title_full Sacrococcygeal Teratoma with Yolk Sac Component in a Neonate
title_fullStr Sacrococcygeal Teratoma with Yolk Sac Component in a Neonate
title_full_unstemmed Sacrococcygeal Teratoma with Yolk Sac Component in a Neonate
title_short Sacrococcygeal Teratoma with Yolk Sac Component in a Neonate
title_sort sacrococcygeal teratoma with yolk sac component in a neonate
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4524204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26290815
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