A Case of Mature Cystic Teratoma in an 8-year-old Girl: A Rare Case Report

Ovarian tumors are commonly seen in reproductive age group in women. However, when they occur at extremes of age, the suspicion of malignancy increases. The detection of dermoid cyst at 8 years of age is uncommon and hence is being reported to acquaint the doctors of this possibility. Awareness of b...

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Autores principales: Agarwal, Manika, Mishra, Shweta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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/PMC5582561/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28900332
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmpo.ijmpo_109_16
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description Ovarian tumors are commonly seen in reproductive age group in women. However, when they occur at extremes of age, the suspicion of malignancy increases. The detection of dermoid cyst at 8 years of age is uncommon and hence is being reported to acquaint the doctors of this possibility. Awareness of benign tumors in small children can help in proper counseling of patient party and planning the surgical procedure.
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spelling pubmed-55825612017-09-12 A Case of Mature Cystic Teratoma in an 8-year-old Girl: A Rare Case Report Agarwal, Manika Mishra, Shweta Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol Case Report Ovarian tumors are commonly seen in reproductive age group in women. However, when they occur at extremes of age, the suspicion of malignancy increases. The detection of dermoid cyst at 8 years of age is uncommon and hence is being reported to acquaint the doctors of this possibility. Awareness of benign tumors in small children can help in proper counseling of patient party and planning the surgical procedure. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5582561/ /pubmed/28900332 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmpo.ijmpo_109_16 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology 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_fullStr A Case of Mature Cystic Teratoma in an 8-year-old Girl: A Rare Case Report
title_full_unstemmed A Case of Mature Cystic Teratoma in an 8-year-old Girl: A Rare Case Report
title_short A Case of Mature Cystic Teratoma in an 8-year-old Girl: A Rare Case Report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5582561/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmpo.ijmpo_109_16
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