1. Neonatal intracranial teratoma
- Author
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Kutluk Tezer, Tekinalp Gülsevin, Akalan Nejat, Yıgıt Sule, Aygun Canan, Erdem Gülşen, and Tombakoglu Meryem
- Subjects
Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Computed tomography ,Intracranial teratoma ,Fatal Outcome ,Developmental Neuroscience ,X ray computed ,medicine ,Humans ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,Brain Neoplasms ,business.industry ,Respiratory disease ,Infant, Newborn ,Teratoma ,Magnetic resonance imaging ,General Medicine ,Airway obstruction ,medicine.disease ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Surgery ,Airway Obstruction ,Tomography x ray computed ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Neurology (clinical) ,Tomography, X-Ray Computed ,business - Abstract
Brain tumors diagnosed in neonatal period are extremely rare. A case of neonatal intracranial teratoma with extracranial extension, presenting with upper airway obstruction is reported. The preoperative diagnosis was made by cranial computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging.
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- 2000