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.

There are two general groups of brain tumors: Some brain tumors contain cancer cells and others don't: Benign brain tumors don't have cancer cells. They grow slowly, can often be removed ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Most tumours of the adrenal gland are called adenomas. These are not cancer, they are benign tumours. Rarely, cancer can develop in the adrenal glands. There are different types of adrenal gland ...

Pure seminoma means that there are no teratoma cells in the tumour. You will have normal Alpha fetoprotein (AFP) marker levels if you have pure seminoma. There are two categories of outlook for pure ...

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 ...

Papillomas are noncancerous, benign growths. Papillomas are often known as warts and verrucae when they reach the skin. They can also form in the surface of the moist tissues lining the insides of ...

Background and Objectives: The two most common autoimmune encephalitides (AE), N-methyl-D-Aspartate receptor (NMDAR) and Leucine-rich Glioma-Inactivated 1 (LGI1) encephalitis, have been known for more ...