Midline mature teratoma inside a ruptured meningomyelocele of lumbosacral region, a case report.
Meningomyelocele (MMC) is very rarely associated with teratoma. Only few reports on the concurrence of a teratoma within a meningomyelocele have been published. The hypotheses of a possible common aetiology for this association include a single dysembryogenic process and neoplastic transformation of heterotopic primordial elements incorporated in the defect. We report an unusual case of midline mature teratoma which presented inside a ruptured lumbar meningomyelocele.
Department of Pediatric Surgery, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, India. sandeshparelkar@kem.edu
Sandesh V
SV
Parelkar
Sanjay N
SN
Oak
Dinesh
D
Mundada
Beejal V
BV
Sanghvi
Prashant B
PB
Joshi
Satish P
SP
Kapadnis
Shishira
S
Shetty
D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae; D008161:Lumbosacral Region; D008297:Male; D008591:Meningomyelocele / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D013724:Teratoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery