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Mesenteric cystic teratoma in children
Abdullatif A Al-Arfaj1, Mohammad A El-Shawarby, Fatma A Al-Mulhim
1Division of Pediatric Surgery, College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. aalarfajsa@yahoo.co.uk
Saudi Medical Journal
|January 8, 2004
Abstract:
Mesenteric teratoma is an extremely rare tumor, arising, akin all other teratomas, from totipotent primordial cells and displays a mixture of tissues of tridermal or bidermal origin. Two cases of mature mesenteric teratoma in a 5-month-old girl and a 4-month-old boy, the youngest reported in the literature, excluding a case recently diagnosed prenatally, are described. Diagnostic tools, differential diagnosis and management are also discussed.