Malignant orbital teratoma in a neonate: A clinicopathological case report

Teratoma of the orbit is rare; very few cases have been published in literature. A case of orbital teratoma in a neonate is presented where the proptosis was massive enough to obscure the eyeball. Clinically, the diagnosis of teratoma was considered. As there was no possibility of salvaging the eye,...

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Autores principales: Prakash, MVS, Indira, R, Radhakrishnan, M, Leela, G
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5525488/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28695872
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpgm.JPGM_629_16
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Indira, R
Radhakrishnan, M
Leela, G
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description Teratoma of the orbit is rare; very few cases have been published in literature. A case of orbital teratoma in a neonate is presented where the proptosis was massive enough to obscure the eyeball. Clinically, the diagnosis of teratoma was considered. As there was no possibility of salvaging the eye, exenteration of the orbit was done. Orbital teratomas are generally benign. Histopathological examination revealed the features of malignant teratoma.
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spelling pubmed-55254882017-08-08 Malignant orbital teratoma in a neonate: A clinicopathological case report Prakash, MVS Indira, R Radhakrishnan, M Leela, G J Postgrad Med Case Report Teratoma of the orbit is rare; very few cases have been published in literature. A case of orbital teratoma in a neonate is presented where the proptosis was massive enough to obscure the eyeball. Clinically, the diagnosis of teratoma was considered. As there was no possibility of salvaging the eye, exenteration of the orbit was done. Orbital teratomas are generally benign. Histopathological examination revealed the features of malignant teratoma. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5525488/ /pubmed/28695872 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpgm.JPGM_629_16 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Journal of Postgraduate Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_full Malignant orbital teratoma in a neonate: A clinicopathological case report
title_fullStr Malignant orbital teratoma in a neonate: A clinicopathological case report
title_full_unstemmed Malignant orbital teratoma in a neonate: A clinicopathological case report
title_short Malignant orbital teratoma in a neonate: A clinicopathological case report
title_sort malignant orbital teratoma in a neonate: a clinicopathological case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5525488/
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