title: Gastric teratoma in a female infant.
abstract: Gastric teratoma is a rare lesion seen most often in male infants. This patient, aged one year, female was having a massive benign gastric teratoma. The size of the tumour was 22 cm x 10 cm x 8 cm and weighted 2.250 kg making it one of the largest gastric teratoma. The tumour was removed by surgery. Histopathology revealed presence of all 3 elements in the form of skin, cartilage, fibrofatty tissue, blood vessels and gland with tall columnar epithelium. Postoperative period was uneventful.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatric Surgery, NRS Medical College, Kolkata.
authors.forename: B B
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Tripathy
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Saha
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Shukla
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mukhopadhyay
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mukhopadhyay
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013724:Teratoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*