A teenage girl experienced a life-changing medical scare when a tumor resembling something from a horror film grew inside her ...

Twenty percent of ovarian tumors are teratomas, and up to 20% of teratomas contain thyroid tissue. Struma ovarii, defined as containing 50% or more thyroid tissue, is less common, accounting for ...

We reviewed our experience with a prospective ongoing protocol for the treatment of benign ovarian teratomas, between January 1990 and December 1996. Sonography established the diagnosis ...

Calle refers to it as her "little monster", as it is a type of teratoma tumor (teratoma is ... trapped during fetal development. Calle had an ovarian dermoid cyst which develops in women during ...