Intracranial monodermal teratoma presenting with growing teratoma syndrome
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Intracranial monodermal teratoma presenting with growing teratoma syndrome
Intracranial teratomas are rare. We report a case of a purely monodermal teratoma manifesting as intracranial growing teratoma syndrome. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of such nature in the literature.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Surgical Case Reports
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2042-8812
DOI: 10.1093/jscr/rjx038