A case of immature teratoma originating in intra-abdominal undescended testis in a 3-month-old infant

Pediatric Surgery International

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 570-572

  Hasegawa, Tomomi ^a   Maeda, Kosaku ^a   Kamata, Naoki ^a   Okita, Yutaka ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Immature teratoma; Intra abdominal undescended testis; Three month old infant

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; TUMOR MARKER;

ABDOMINAL MASS; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYPTORCHISM; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTIS TERATOMA; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; CRYPTORCHIDISM; ETOPOSIDE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; TERATOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33744495090     PISSN: 01790358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00383-006-1694-8     Document Type: Article

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