Many species, including humans, have vestigial organs that are thought to be useless. But this specific structure might ...

That afternoon, their daughter was diagnosed with Sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT) — she had a tumor growing from her pelvis both inside and outside of her body. The tumor looked to be mostly solid ...

A sacrococcygeal teratoma is a tumor that forms on the tailbone during fetal development, according to Texas Children's Hospital. The tumor can be life-threatening for the baby as it can cause ...

Sacrococcygeal Teratomas (SCT) are congenital tumors most commonly found during infancy and childhood. At presentation, approximately 10% of these are malignant, increasing to 50% by age 1 and ...

HOUSTON, Texas (WKRC) - A baby was born with a four-pound tumor on her tailbone, nearly two-thirds of her body weight. Kristin and Jacob Tyler were told that their baby had sacrococcygeal teratoma ...

Sacrococcygeal teratomas are most commonly seen as congenital neoplasms with an incidence of ∼ 1:35 000–40 000 of live births. 11 These tumors are much less common in adults and are thought to ...

PURPOSE: To evaluate a multimodal approach including surgery and cisplatinum chemotherapy for treatment of children with malignant sacrococcygeal germ cell tumors (GCT) and to compare adjuvant and ...

PURPOSE: To evaluate therapeutic options for recurrent malignant sacrococcygeal germ cell tumors (GCT) following three-agent, cisplatinum-based, first-line chemotherapy and tumor resection. PATIENTS ...

Sacrococcygeal teratoma: American Academy of Pediatrics Section Survey, 1973 J Pediatr Surg 1974 9: 389–98. Article CAS Google Scholar Murphy JJ, Blair GK, Fraser GC . Coagulopathy associated ...

Additional immunohistochemical investigation revealed diffuse but variable positivity of the tumor cells for vimentin, AE1/AE3 keratin, CK5, CK7, Mic-2, Moc-31, and BER-EP4; there was also ...