Follicular Lymphoma Arising In a Mature Cystic Teratoma in a 26 Year Old Female.
Malignant transformation in mature cystic teratomas is rare and accounts for 0.17-1.4% of cases. Squamous cell carcinoma is the most common malignant tumor in teratomas and accounts for more than 80% of cases. We present the case of a 26-year-old female with no significant past medical history who presented to the ER with abdominal pain. Imaging studies showed an ovarian cyst, which on histological examination showed a mature cystic teratoma with a follicular lymphoma. It is an extremely rare occurrence with only four reported cases in the English literature.
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA Nidhi.Tandon@uth.tmc.edu.
Nidhi
N
Tandon
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Sadia
S
Sultana
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Hongxia
H
Sun
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Songlin
S
Zhang
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008224:Lymphoma, Follicular / Q000473:pathology*; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D013724:Teratoma / Q000473:pathology*