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REPORT OF A CASE

J. GRAFTON LOVE, M.D.; FREDERICK P. MOERSCH, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1938;37(6):949-955.

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Teratomas, while no longer looked on as a judgment from God, continue to intrigue and mystify the student of oncology. As a group, teratomas are among the rare forms of growth. In previous communications by Hundling,¹ Moersch² and Whittaker and Pemberton,³ the rarity of sacral growths has been emphasized. These authors reported a total of 14 dermoids and 1 teratoma of the sacrococcygeal region. Whittaker and Pemberton concluded that ventral tumors of the sacrum occurred about once among 40,000 registrations at the Mayo Clinic and that only a small percentage of such tumors belonged to the group of congenital abnormalities. The rarity of teratoma of the sacrococcygeal region of adults, therefore, justifies this report. According to Harrington,⁴ the sites of occurrence of teratoma, in order of frequency, are the pelvis, the abdomen, the sacrococcygeal region and the thorax. To these should be added the nervous system. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
ROCHESTER, MINN.

From the Section on Neurosurgery (Dr. Love) and the Section on Neurology (Dr. Moersch), the Mayo Clinic.

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