Case Reports in Urology (Jan 2021)

Growing Teratoma Syndrome: A Rare Outcome

  • João Rebelo,
  • Francisco Moreira,
  • Margarida Morgado,
  • Ana Sofia Preto,
  • António Madureira

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/8884787
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2021

Abstract

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Growing teratoma syndrome is a rare condition described in both testicular and ovarian cancer. We present a case of a 26-year-old male with known mixed germ cell tumor which exhibited new and progressive secondary lesions during imaging surveillance, later to be histologically characterized as teratomas.