Huge teratoma in a teenager

Mature cystic teratoma is the most common ovarian tumor in young females. We are presenting a 13-year-old African–American female with abdominal distension. Computed tomography of the abdomen showed midline cystic mass. Diagnosis was confirmed after laparoscopic left salpingo-oophorectomy. Malignant...

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Autores principales: Alamarat, Zain, Onwuzurike, Nkechi, Azher, Qazi, Al Hadidi, Samer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Clinical Image
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5570054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28852533
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omx040
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author Alamarat, Zain
Onwuzurike, Nkechi
Azher, Qazi
Al Hadidi, Samer
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description Mature cystic teratoma is the most common ovarian tumor in young females. We are presenting a 13-year-old African–American female with abdominal distension. Computed tomography of the abdomen showed midline cystic mass. Diagnosis was confirmed after laparoscopic left salpingo-oophorectomy. Malignant transformation of mature cystic teratoma is rare.
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spelling pubmed-55700542017-08-29 Huge teratoma in a teenager Alamarat, Zain Onwuzurike, Nkechi Azher, Qazi Al Hadidi, Samer Oxf Med Case Reports Clinical Image Mature cystic teratoma is the most common ovarian tumor in young females. We are presenting a 13-year-old African–American female with abdominal distension. Computed tomography of the abdomen showed midline cystic mass. Diagnosis was confirmed after laparoscopic left salpingo-oophorectomy. Malignant transformation of mature cystic teratoma is rare. Oxford University Press 2017-08-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5570054/ /pubmed/28852533 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omx040 Text en © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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title_short Huge teratoma in a teenager
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5570054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28852533
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