Uterine teratoma and the role of short-tandem repeat genotyping in understanding origins
Abdelrahman AlAshqar, Vijaya Kadam Maruthi, Rita Abi-Raad, Michelle Greenman, Pei Hui, Elena Ratner, Gary Altwerger, Alessandro Santin, Vaagn Andikyan · 2024
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Description
Abdelrahman AlAshqar and co-authors report a rare womb tumor case in a 2024 paper. Such tumors, called teratomas, hold tissue from all germ layers, but they are far less common in the womb than in the ovary. Scans rarely settle the diagnosis, so it is usually made after surgery, and where the tumor starts has been debated.
A woman aged forty four had four weeks of bleeding from a womb mass, and tests gave no clear answer. She chose full womb removal, and the tumor proved to be a mature cystic teratoma. Gene repeat tests on tumor and tube tissue showed near match with the host, which rules out an unfertilized egg or leftover fetal tissue as the source.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Abdelrahman AlAshqar, Vijaya Kadam Maruthi, Rita Abi-Raad, Michelle Greenman, Pei Hui, Elena Ratner, Gary Altwerger, Alessandro Santin, Vaagn Andikyan |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 17 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |