Emergence of mature teratoma following treatment of sacrococcygeal endodermal sinus tumor: CT and MR imaging with pathological correlation

P E Cranston; E E Smith; J Hamrick-Turner

doi:10.1007/BF02015443

Emergence of mature teratoma following treatment of sacrococcygeal endodermal sinus tumor: CT and MR imaging with pathological correlation

Pediatr Radiol. 1994;24(4):239-40. doi: 10.1007/BF02015443.

Authors

P E Cranston¹, E E Smith, J Hamrick-Turner

Affiliation

¹ University of Mississippi Medical Center, Department of Radiology, Jackson 39216-4505.

PMID: 7800439
DOI: 10.1007/BF02015443

Abstract

We report a case of pseudoretroconversion in which, clinically and pathologically, it appeared that an endodermal sinus tumor retroconverted to mature teratoma. An 8-month-old white female infant with a sacrococcygeal tumor, diagnosed by biopsy as endodermal sinus tumor (yolk sac tumor), was treated with chemotherapy. The residual tumor after treatment was mature teratoma confirmed by imaging and by pathological examination. We present the computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings with pathological correlation.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Endodermal Sinus Tumor / drug therapy
Endodermal Sinus Tumor / pathology*
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Infant
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Neoplasms, Second Primary*
Sacrococcygeal Region
Teratoma / pathology*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed