1. The Retroconversion of Immature Teratoma with Chemotherapy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
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Ayse Ocak Duran, Gulsah Cubukcu, Halit Karaca, Melike Ordu, Metin Ozkan, Oktay Bozkurt, Veli Berk, Eray Eroglu, Sumeyra Koyuncu, Mevlude Inanc Polat, and Ersin Ozaslan
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endocrine system ,Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Chemotherapy ,endocrine system diseases ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Systemic chemotherapy ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Immature Ovarian Teratoma ,General Medicine ,urologic and male genital diseases ,medicine.disease ,female genital diseases and pregnancy complications ,Metastasis ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Liver biopsy ,Biopsy ,medicine ,Immature teratoma ,business ,neoplasms ,Germ cell - Abstract
Immature ovarian teratoma is a rarely seen germ cell tumor. Although testicular germ cell tumors and their association with chemotherapeutic retroconversion have been reported at a substantial rate of 2%-8% in the literature, the retroconversion of immature ovarian teratoma to mature teratoma is quite uncommon. It is important to reveal this conversion by biopsy for establishing a subsequent treatment chart of patients. A 45-year-old female patient was operated on due to immature ovarian teratoma. Then, she was re-operated on, because local recurrence occurred during the drug-free follow-up period, and systemic chemotherapy was administered. Liver metastasis was detected after chemotherapy, and the liver biopsy demonstrated a mature teratoma. This case is presented in this paper.
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- 2014
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