Teratoma in Children: Three cases experience in Sanglah Hospital, Bali, Indonesia
1 Department of Child Health, Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University/Sanglah General Hospital, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.
2 Department of Pathology-Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University/Sanglah General Hospital, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.
3 Department of Pathology-Anatomy, Klungkung Hospital, Klungkung, Indonesia.
Case Study
GSC Advanced Research and Reviews, 2021, 06(02), 013-019.
Article DOI: 10.30574/gscarr.2021.6.2.0014
Publication history:
Received on 05 January 2021; revised on 02 February 2021; accepted on 04 February 2021
Abstract:
Teratomas are the most common germ cell tumor, and further classified into mature or immature. Immature teratoma comprise less than one percent of all teratomas and with the peak incidence at birth until four years. They were diagnosed by history taking, physical examination, laboratory, imaging, and pathological anatomy as a gold standard. This report presents our experience of diagnosed, giving treatment with or without surgery and chemotherapy in three patients with teratoma. We report three cases of teratoma, at age six months, eight months and four years old with site of cases are retroperitoneal immature teratoma, cervical teratoma and ovarian immature teratoma. History taking of these patients, they have same symptom such as enlargement of the mass. Two cases were noticed after birth and progressively getting bigger until six and eight months old. One case was noticed when the patient had abdominal pain and was suspected with appendicitis at first. The computed tomography (CT) scan of these cases showed a mass as a part of teratoma and confirmed with pathological anatomy. Two cases were immature, and one case was mature teratoma. Two patients undergone surgery resection and continue with chemotherapy (cisplatin, etoposide, and bleomycin) for 10-14 weeks showed a good result until now and showed no residual mass anymore form CT scan, but one patient did not undergo surgery and chemotherapy yet. Early diagnosis of teratomas is leading us to a definitive therapy and showed a good result.
Keywords:
immature teratoma; diagnosis; treatment; children
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