In utero development of a mediastinal teratoma: A second-trimester event |
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| Authors: | M Kent Froberg Robert E Brown John Maylock Eric Poling |
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| Institution: | Departments of Laboratory Medicine, Pediatrics, Family Practice, and Radiology, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pennsylvania, U.S.A |
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| Abstract: | Mediastinal teratomas have rarely been discovered during the prenatal period. When seen during the neonatal period, these tumours have caused respiratory distress or hydrops fetalis. We present the sonographic and pathological findings of a rapidly developing anterior mediastinal teratoma causing hydrops fetalis and in utero demise at 27 weeks' gestation. |
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| Keywords: | Mediastinal teratoma non-immune hydrops fetalis |
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