Umbilical Cord Teratoma Presenting as Ruptured Omphalocele

• Main Authors: Fabian Doktor (Author), Jan-Hendrik Gosemann (Author), Peter Zimmermann (Author), Manuela Siekmeyer (Author), Holger Stepan (Author), Martin Lacher (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Georg Thieme Verlag KG, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Congenital mature teratomas of the umbilical cord are extremely rare. We report on a girl who presented with a ruptured omphalocele and a 7 cm mass connected to the umbilicus, which we resected on the first day of life. Histology revealed mature umbilical cord teratoma . On the 29th day of life, a s...