title: Teratoma of the umbilical cord. Case report with review of the literature.
abstract: Teratomas of the umbilical cord are very rare lesions. We found only five cases in the literature from 1887 to 1993, the latest reported in 1985. We report a case of a 10 x 7 x 5-cm mass located just at the end of an omphalocele in the umbilical cord of a full-term baby. The mass exhibited something like a cranial and a caudal pole, and tissues of all three germinal layers could be found, but there were no skeletal structures. Therefore, this lesion was diagnosed as a teratoma of the umbilical cord. We review the literature and discuss the relationship between the teratoma of the umbilical cord and the holoacardius amorphus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, University of Innsbruck, Austria.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kreczy
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alge
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Menardi
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gassner
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gschwendtner
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mikuz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006554:Hernia, Umbilical / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D013724:Teratoma / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D014470:Umbilical Cord / Q000473:pathology*