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Teratoma Generation in the Testis Capsule
Published on: November 7, 2011
Congenital primary penile teratoma in a child
Jianlin Hu1, Koichi Nagao2, Toshihiro Tai2
1Department of Urology, Reproduction Center, Toho University Omori Hospital, Tokyo, Japan; Department of Anesthesiology, Shanghai First People's Hospital Attached to Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China.
Abstract:
Teratomas rarely present as a pediatric congenital primary penile mass. We describe a 14-month-old boy with a blister-like mass on his distal left penis. The subcutaneous mass measured 1.5 cm (length)×1.0 cm (width)×1.2 cm (height) on ultrasonography. There were clear margins between these structures and the lesion. At the age of 5 years, he received an extirpation surgery. Histologic analysis revealed that it was a mature teratoma. In our view, surgical resection should be the treatment of choice for a pediatric penile mass with the alertness of teratomas because of the possibility of malignant alteration and invasion of adjacent structures till unresectable.
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