After enduring agony for two days, the 17-year-old went to the hospital, where a CT scan revealed a benign teratoma tumor, commonly referred to as a "monster tumor." Germ cell tumors can appear at ...

After two days of agony, she went to hospital, where a CT scan revealed a benign teratoma – a so-called "monster tumour" – roughly the size of a tennis ball. Shockingly, the mass had grown a ...

This retrospective study reports on 608 cases of benign cystic teratoma of the ovary treated at Siriraj Hospital over a ten-year period from 1988-1997. Mean age of the patients was 33.7 + 11.3 years.

Less commonly they occur in the head and neck. In children teratomas are almost always benign - calling them tumours can be both frightening and misleading as they do not behave like cancers.

The teenager has now been diagnosed a tennis ball-sized teratoma tumour, often nicknamed a 'monster tumour', which - although benign - has eaten her right ovary. Nesli underwent the CT scan back ...