Incidental diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma transformation in mature cystic teratoma of the ovary: A case report and review of literature

Malignant transformation in a mature cystic teratoma of the ovary is a rare complication. Herein, we report a case of a 62-year-old woman who was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma in a mature cystic teratoma of the ovary in the histopathology examination. This case report highlights the importa...

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Autores principales: Dorji, Namkha, Choden, Sonam, Tshering, Sangay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8902001/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35273800
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X221082426
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description Malignant transformation in a mature cystic teratoma of the ovary is a rare complication. Herein, we report a case of a 62-year-old woman who was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma in a mature cystic teratoma of the ovary in the histopathology examination. This case report highlights the importance of suspecting malignant transformation in an elderly woman with a large mature cystic teratoma of the ovary with a thickened wall so that proper surgical and adjuvant treatments are planned.
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spelling pubmed-89020012022-03-09 Incidental diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma transformation in mature cystic teratoma of the ovary: A case report and review of literature Dorji, Namkha Choden, Sonam Tshering, Sangay SAGE Open Med Case Rep Case Report Malignant transformation in a mature cystic teratoma of the ovary is a rare complication. Herein, we report a case of a 62-year-old woman who was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma in a mature cystic teratoma of the ovary in the histopathology examination. This case report highlights the importance of suspecting malignant transformation in an elderly woman with a large mature cystic teratoma of the ovary with a thickened wall so that proper surgical and adjuvant treatments are planned. SAGE Publications 2022-03-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8902001/ /pubmed/35273800 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X221082426 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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title Incidental diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma transformation in mature cystic teratoma of the ovary: A case report and review of literature
title_full Incidental diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma transformation in mature cystic teratoma of the ovary: A case report and review of literature
title_fullStr Incidental diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma transformation in mature cystic teratoma of the ovary: A case report and review of literature
title_full_unstemmed Incidental diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma transformation in mature cystic teratoma of the ovary: A case report and review of literature
title_short Incidental diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma transformation in mature cystic teratoma of the ovary: A case report and review of literature
title_sort incidental diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma transformation in mature cystic teratoma of the ovary: a case report and review of literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8902001/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35273800
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X221082426
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