title: Immature gastric teratoma in an infant.
abstract: A 45 day old boy presented with progressive abdominal distension, tarry stools and anemia. A plain roentgenogram of the abdomen showed irregular, coarse calcifications in the left upper quadrant. The ultrasonography and computerized tomography of the abdomen revealed a large heterogeneous tumor with calcified parts in the left hemiabdomen. At operation, a 12 cm x 11 cm x 10 cm, multilobular, exogastric and endogastric tumor, including a portion of the anterior wall of the stomach, was extirpated. The pathological examination revealed a gastric teratoma with immature neural elements. Eight years after the total excision of the tumor there has not been any recurrence. This study includes a review of 88 cases (including the present case) of gastric teratoma reported in the English and Japanese literature.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima, Japan.
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Muñoz
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Takehara
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Komi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hizawa
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D013724:Teratoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography