Pediatric Ovarian Growing Teratoma Syndrome [PDF]
Case Reports in Surgery, 2017 Ovarian immature teratoma is a germ cell tumor that comprises less than 1% of ovarian cancers and is treated with surgical debulking and chemotherapy depending on stage.
Rebecca M. Rentea +6 more
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Growing Teratoma Syndrome [PDF]
Case Reports in Urology, 2014 Growing teratoma syndrome (GTS) is a rare clinical entity, which presents with enlarging teratomas masses of the retroperitoneum or other locations, occurring during or after systemic chemotherapy for the treatment of nonseminomatous germ cell of the ...
Anna Scavuzzo +3 more
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Total en bloc spondylectomy in testicular immature teratoma: Long‐term survival amidst vertebral metastasis escalated by growing teratoma syndrome [PDF]
IJU Case ReportsIntroduction We present a rare case of long‐term survival following metastasectomy for lumbar metastasis with growing teratoma syndrome. Case presentation An 18‐year‐old man presented with left scrotal mass and lumbago.
Masahiro Tamaki +7 more
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Growing Teratoma Syndrome and Peritoneal Gliomatosis [PDF]
Case Reports in Medicine, 2011 The growing teratoma syndrome (GTS) is defined as a detection of an enlarged mass during or after chemotherapy treatment for germ cell tumor. We report a case of an 18-year-old girl treated for growing teratoma syndrome after chemotherapy for malignant ...
H. Mrabti +5 more
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Growing Teratoma Syndrome with Synchronous Gliomatosis Peritonei during Chemotherapy in Ovarian Immature Teratoma: A Case Report and Literature Review [PDF]
Current Oncology, 2022 Coexistent growing teratoma syndrome (GTS) and gliomatosis peritonei (GP) arising during chemotherapy of ovarian immature teratoma (IMT) is extremely rare and can be misdiagnosed as recurrent or progressive disease.
Sijian Li +5 more
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Managing growing teratoma syndrome: new insights and clinical applications [PDF]
Future Science OA, 2019 Although a recognized condition, growing teratoma syndrome (GTS) has no guidelines for management, and patients diagnosed with the condition are managed empirically by the most appropriate teams.
Srdjan Saso +10 more
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Malignant sacro-coccygeal teratoma with growing teratoma syndrome
Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, 2019 A 13-month-old female with sacro-coccygeal tumor type II by Altman, was proven by biopsy to be a malignant germ cell tumor. Serum tumor markers were normal.
Tamador Al-Shamaileh +5 more
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Urology Case Reports, 2014 Growing teratoma syndrome is a rare condition among patients with nonseminomatous germ cell tumors who present with enlarging metastatic masses during appropriate systemic chemotherapy and normalized serum markers.
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Growing teratoma syndrome of ovary
International Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2008 Growing teratoma syndrome is an increase of tumor size containing only a mature teratoma component, during or after chemotherapy for germ cell tumors. Mature teratomatous elements are chemoresistant and have to be resected surgically. We describe three patients with malignant immature teratoma treated with chemotherapy and surgical resection. All three
Roopa, Hariprasad +4 more
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Salvage surgery using simultaneous clamshell thoracotomy with median sternotomy for mediastinal growing teratoma syndrome [PDF]
Thoracic Cancer, 2020 This report describes the case of a 17‐year‐old man who developed mediastinal growing teratoma syndrome following two cycles of chemotherapy, after an initial diagnosis of primary mediastinal nonseminomatous germ cell tumor.
Chieh‐Ni Kao +8 more
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