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Published on: September 20, 2018
Cara Pessel1, Victoria Fratto, Sherelle Laifer-Narin
1Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY.
Abstract:
Sacral tumors with fetiform features are rare and pose a diagnostic challenge to the ultrasonologist. Sacrococcygeal teratomas (SCT) and parasitic twins can have very similar sonographic features but have different implications to an affected pregnancy. While postnatal histopathology is ultimately necessary to distinguish between a SCT and a heteropagus twin, certain characteristics, such as the presence of a vertebral column and the pattern and rate of tumor growth, may be useful to guide counseling and management decisions.
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