Growing Teratoma Syndrome as Retroperitoneal Mass: Case Report
Year: 2024
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: Growing Teratoma Syndrome (GTS) is characterized by the enlargement of tumors during or after chemotherapy for nonseminomatous germ cell tumors accompanied by the normalization of previously elevated tumor marker levels and the presence of mature teratoma components upon histological examination. We present a case involving a 25-year-old male diagnosed with a Mixed Germ Cell Tumor. The patient underwent surgery and chemotherapy. However, a year later he was diagnosed with Growing Teratoma Syndrome (GTS) due to the presence of a retroperitoneal mass that failed to respond to a second regimen of chemotherapy.
Authors: Enrique Bedoya-Ismodes, Karem Portugal, Gabriela Chumbes, Milagros Paucar, Marvin Robles, Marco Huamán, Sandy Carmona-Lozán, Jose Maria Gutierrez, Néstor Juárez-Herrera
Language: English
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4404712386