Yolk Sac Tumor of the Cervix in an Infant: A Surgical Dilemma

A 5-month-old child presented with vaginal bleeding and found yolk sac tumor of the uterine cervix. She attained complete remission only with chemotherapy and on follow-up for more than a year. We report this for the unusual age and feasibility of avoiding surgery in selected cases.

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Autores principales: Narasimhan, Swati, Arul, Janani, Swaminathan, Rajendran, Agarwal, Prakash
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9208688/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35733602
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_68_21
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author Narasimhan, Swati
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spelling pubmed-92086882022-06-21 Yolk Sac Tumor of the Cervix in an Infant: A Surgical Dilemma Narasimhan, Swati Arul, Janani Swaminathan, Rajendran Agarwal, Prakash J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report A 5-month-old child presented with vaginal bleeding and found yolk sac tumor of the uterine cervix. She attained complete remission only with chemotherapy and on follow-up for more than a year. We report this for the unusual age and feasibility of avoiding surgery in selected cases. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022 2022-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9208688/ /pubmed/35733602 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_68_21 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_fullStr Yolk Sac Tumor of the Cervix in an Infant: A Surgical Dilemma
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title_short Yolk Sac Tumor of the Cervix in an Infant: A Surgical Dilemma
title_sort yolk sac tumor of the cervix in an infant: a surgical dilemma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9208688/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35733602
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_68_21
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