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 ...

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 ...

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.

Cami’s tumor, called a sacrococcygeal teratoma ... doctors don’t fully understand what causes teratomas like hers to spontaneously form on fetuses. However, it may have something to do ...

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 ...

He battled a rare kind of cancer called type 4 sacrococcygeal teratoma. The Triumph over Kid Cancer Foundation and the D.K. Foundation are partnering to start an event called Sunset Bells ...

Just minutes after she was born, a team of 25 began a six-hour operation to remove the sacrococcygeal teratoma from her tailbone – a condition that affects one in every 40,000 live births.

Physical examination performed by an endocrinologist after the removal of the sacrococcygeal tumor revealed the thyroid gland to be normal in size and contour, freely mobile, without palpable ...