MULTIPLE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF A FEMALE PATIENT WITH RECURRENT PELVIC TERATOMA

Abstract

Teratoma is a tumor consisting of several types of tissues derived from one, two or three germ leaves, the presence of which is not peculiar to those organs and anatomical areas of the body in which the tumor develops. According to the WHO classification definition, immature teratomas are those containing embryonic tissues along with definitive, mature tissue structures. In histological WHO classification immature teratomas belong to germ cell ovarian tumors and are in­cluded into the group of teracomas. The prognosis is determined by the variant of the histological structure, the primary localization of the tumor, timely and adequate treatment.This article presents a clinical case of treatment of a young female patient with persistently recurrent pelvic teratoma.The presented observation demonstrates, on the one hand, the unpredictability of the course of the tumor process in embryonic tumors. On the other hand, there were demonstrated the possibilities of surgical treatment of another re­lapse of teratoma in a young patient with a massive tumor of the pelvic cavity in a situation where the hopes for a radical operation according to previous abdominal revisions seemed vague.

Keywords

• oncogynecology
• recurrent ovarian tumors
• immature and mature teratomas
• surgical treatment
• prognosis