Prenatal aspiration of sacrococcygeal teratoma
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Prenatal sonographic diagnosis of congenital sacrococcygeal teratoma and management.
Teratomas are tumors containing tissues derived from all three germinal cell layers. Most teratomas arise in the sacrococcygeal region, with a reported incidence of 1/40,000 births. During labor, severe dystocia may occur in infants with large tumors if delivered vaginally, with an extremely high fetal morbidity and mortality rate. Reported is a case of a large congenital sacrococcygeal teratom...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Roentgenology
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0361-803X,1546-3141
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.141.2.367