teratoma

For treatment of a teratoma that has not spread, surgery is used.

In 2010, she had an open heart surgery due to cystic teratoma.

This grade of teratoma also may be difficult to diagnose correctly.

Although often described as benign, a teratoma does have malignant potential.

A similar study in Italy reported on 183 infants and children diagnosed with teratoma.

Others use it to mean any mature, cystic teratoma.

Regardless of location in the body, a teratoma is classified according to a cancer staging system.

The other theory is that the mass is a highly developed teratoma.

His teratoma was discovered when he blew a tooth out of his nose.

The program contains shocking stories, including a man's uterus and man with a teratoma, a type of large tumor.

The tumor was diagnosed as being a non-malignant Teratoma.

Teratoma is the most common type of fetal tumor, and usually is benign.

Among these, a common form is teratoma with endodermal sinus tumor.

A mature teratoma often contains several different types of tissue such as skin, muscle, and bone.

Teratoma qualifies as a rare disease, but is not extremely rare.

There was one case even of a well-differentiated teratoma that had enough cardiac muscle to beat like a heart."

A "benign" grade 0 (mature) teratoma nonetheless has a risk of malignancy.

Sacrococcygeal teratoma alone is diagnosed at birth in one out of 40,000 humans.

However, future in vivo studies are required to rule out the potential of these cells for teratoma formation.

The term is most often applied to teratoma on the skull sutures and in the ovaries of females.

Teratoma is a relatively resistant histologic subtype, so chemotherapy may not be appropriate.

Isolated malignant elements may constitute a small fraction of a predominantly immature teratoma.

Left to themselves, embryonic stem cells in the laboratory will often develop into a chaotic mass of different tissues known as a teratoma.

These structures are distinctly different from squamous papilloma and benign teratoma.

Any teratoma near the body surface may develop a sinus or a fistula, or even a cluster of these.