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.

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However, she went to the emergency services when she could not bear the agony and a CT scan revealed a benign teratoma—a monster tumour that was the size of a tennis ball. Shockingly ...

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.

She developed psychosis-like symptoms as a result of a benign mediastinal teratoma compressing her brain. Following surgery, she left Chicago to recuperate with her mother in St. Louis but ...

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 ...

But the process isn’t efficient or benign. In a dish containing millions ... rapidly dividing growths known as teratomas or monster tumors. These develop when a stem cell doesn’t know what ...

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Nesli Meir had a recurrent sharp pain in her lower right abdomen for some time, which was ignored. But a later CT scan revealed a benign teratoma—a monster tumour that was the size of a tennis ball.