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Immature Gastric Teratoma in an Infant
Author(s) -
Mufioz Nestor A.,
Takehara Hiroo,
Komi Nobuhiko,
Hizawa Kazuo
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
pediatrics international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.49
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1442-200X
pISSN - 1328-8067
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-200x.1992.tb00993.x
Subject(s) - medicine , teratoma , pathology
A 45 day old boy presented with progressive abdominal distension, tarry stools and anemia. A plain roentgenogram of the abdomen showed irregular, coarse calcifications in the left upper quadrant. The ultrasonography and computerized tomography of the abdomen revealed a large heterogeneous tumor with calcified parts in the left hemiabdomen. At operation, a 12 cm × 11 cm × 10 cm, multilobular, exogastric and endogastric tumor, including a portion of the anterior wall of the stomach, was extirpated. The pathological examination revealed a gastric teratoma with immature neural elements. Eight years after the total excision of the tumor there has not been any recurrence. This study includes a review of 88 cases (including the present case) of gastric teratoma reported in the English and Japanese literature.