Case Report
Primary Immature Teratoma of the Uterus Relapsing as Malignant Neuroepithelioma: Case Report and Review of the Literature
Table 1
Clinical characteristics and treatment of patients with primary immature teratoma of the uterus in the literature.
| | Author | Age | Symptoms | Site of tumor | Histology | Treatment | Relapse
(months) | Treatment of relapse |
| Our case
| 56 | Urinary symptoms
Lower abdominal distention | Corpus | IT | Hysterectomy | Yes (3) | BEP 1 |
Newsom-Davis et al., 2009 [5]
| 82 | Vaginal bleeding | Corpus | IT | Hysterectomy and bilateral salpingooophorectomy | Yes (6) | EP 1, ET 1,
TP 1 + surgery |
Gomez-Lobo et al., 2007 [6]
| 15 | Vaginal bleeding
Pelvic pain
| ns | IT, high grade | Lesion excision + chemotherapy | ns | — | |
Iwanaga et al., 1993 [7] | 36 | Pelvic pain
Lower abdominal distention | Fundus | IT, grade 3 | Hysterectomy + chemotherapy (VAC × 2) | No | — | |
Ansah-Boateng et al., 1985 [8] | 37 | Vaginal bleeding | ns | IT, grade 2 | Hysterectomy + radiotherapy | No | — |
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ns: not specified; IT: immature teratoma; VAC: vincristine, actinomycin D, cyclophosphamide; BEP: bleomycin, etoposide, cisplatin; EP: etoposide, cisplatin; ET: etoposide, paclitaxel; TP: palcitaxel, cisplatin.
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