Growing teratoma syndrome: Two case reports

Abstract

Abstract We present two cases of 10 and 27 years old girls with recurrence of immature teratoma after an incomplete surgical staging. In both cases, there were huge abdominopelvic masses despite decrease in tumor markers with chemotherapy. Complete surgical resection of these masses was done, and histopathology showed only mature teratoma.

Keywords

• chemotherapy retroconversion
• growing teratoma syndrome
• ovarian germ cell tumor