Sacrococcygeal teratoma in a fetus from a multiple pregnancy

Authors

  • Alegna de la Caridad Ochoa Hidalgo Departamento Provincial de Genética Médica. Las Tunas.
  • Glenys Katiuska Silva González Departamento Provincial de Genética Médica. Las Tunas.
  • Bertha de la Caridad Hernández Almaguer Departamento Provincial de Genética Médica. Las Tunas.

Keywords:

TERATOMA, PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS, ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL

Abstract

Teratoma is the most common tumor in newborns. In spite of reaching huge proportions and containing big blood vessels which deprive the growing fetus of blood, they show low mortality in the neonatal period. This is a presentation of a case where fetal ultrasonography is used for the study of a dichorionic tri-amniotic triplet multiple pregnancy, in which a mixed tumoral mass, predominantly echogenic, with well defined borders, measuring 5, 8 mm, suggesting meningocele or sacrococcygeal teratoma, at the sacral level, was detected in one of the fetuses. After 15 days the tumor measured 16, 4 mm. In view of the absence of cerebral signs of Chiari’s disease, the suspicion of a sacrococcygeal teratoma grows stronger. The pregnancy was interrupted by cesarean section at 35 weeks of gestation. The neonate with the congenital anomaly underwent corrective surgical treatment with satisfactory results, but necessity of new surgical interventions.

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Author Biographies

Alegna de la Caridad Ochoa Hidalgo, Departamento Provincial de Genética Médica. Las Tunas.

Especialista de Primer Grado en Medicina General Integral.

Glenys Katiuska Silva González, Departamento Provincial de Genética Médica. Las Tunas.

Especialista de Primer Grado en Genética Clínica. Máster en Atención Integral al Niño. Investigador Agregado. Profesor Asistente.

Bertha de la Caridad Hernández Almaguer, Departamento Provincial de Genética Médica. Las Tunas.

Especialista de Segundo Grado en Ginecobstetricia. Profesora Asistente.

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2016-04-18

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Ochoa Hidalgo A de la C, Silva González GK, Hernández Almaguer B de la C. Sacrococcygeal teratoma in a fetus from a multiple pregnancy. Rev. electron. Zoilo [Internet]. 2016 Apr. 18 [cited 2025 Sep. 6];41(5). Available from: https://revzoilomarinello.sld.cu/index.php/zmv/article/view/763

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Vol. 41 No. 5 (2016): May (Genetics)

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Case reports

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