Sacrococcygeal teratomas ... It's not clear exactly what causes teratomas to form. These tumors form in your body's germ cells, which are what's called undifferentiated. This means they can ...

Fenton explains what causes this rare congenital condition and the extraordinary ... And so, in the case of a sacrococcygeal teratoma, we can look at other things that tell us that the child is ...

Although rare, sacrococcygeal teratoma is most often found in newborns. Most ovarian teratomas are mature. The mature ovarian teratoma is also known as a dermoid cyst. About 1 to 3 percent of ...

In this article, we discuss teratomas in more detail, including the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatment of this type of tumor. Doctors typically classify teratomas into two subtypes ...

Adalida Tyler was born with a rare condition known as sacrococcygeal teratoma. When Kristin Tyler went in for a routine ultrasound 20 weeks into her second pregnancy, she said she was not prepared ...

We believe that our patient may represent the first reported case of malignant transformation of mature thyroid tissue in a sacrococcygeal teratoma. The impact of his diagnosis on the decision ...

Histological examination of the resected tumor and coccyx demonstrated malignant teratoma with extensive endodermal sinus tumor and tumor at the resected margins. Sacrococcygeal teratomas are ...

When Lyndsy was 5 months pregnant, an ultrasound showed a sacrococcygeal teratoma, a mass on her tailbone. It happens between 1 in 35,000 to 1 in 40,000 live births. The cause is unknown.

Kristin and Jacob Tyler were told that their baby had sacrococcygeal teratoma, a rare fetal tumor that forms from the baby's tailbone. It occurs in every 20,000 births. Nassr told PEOPLE that the ...

“They saw something on the scan, and the doctor came in and told us that there was something seriously wrong with our baby and that she had a sacrococcygeal teratoma,” the Plano ...

Doctors diagnosed the couple's unborn baby girl with a sacrococcygeal teratoma, a one-in-27,000 tumor that forms during pregnancy in the baby's tailbone. Mrs Tyler, 23, said: 'I was very scared.