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

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 ...

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 ...

Gross examination of the left ovarian mass on the cut surfaces revealed bulging, pink-to-tan, irregular, compartmentalized surfaces (Fig. 1). The mass, right ovary, and uterus were fixed in 10% ...