That afternoon, their daughter was diagnosed with Sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT) — she had a tumor growing from her pelvis both inside and outside of her body. The tumor looked to be mostly solid ...

A family in Montrose is thrilled to finally have their baby girl home from Children's Hospital Colorado. Ella Kay Tobler was born 13 weeks early so doctors could remove a rare, 4-pound tumor from ...

There will be a book launch party for "Perfect Through and Through" from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at Kegler's Pub inside ...

Sacrococcygeal Teratomas (SCT) are congenital tumors most commonly found during infancy and childhood. At presentation, approximately 10% of these are malignant, increasing to 50% by age 1 and ...

Malignant sacrococcygeal teratoma – endodermal sinus, yolk sac tumor – in infants and children: 32 year review. J Pediatr Surg 1985; 20 : 473–477. Article CAS Google Scholar ...

Weston Brown is an 8-year-old from Padre Island who beat childhood cancer when he was 6 years old. He battled a rare kind of cancer called type 4 sacrococcygeal teratoma.

Sacrococcygeal teratoma: American Academy of Pediatrics Section Survey, 1973 J Pediatr Surg 1974 9: 389–98. Article CAS Google Scholar Murphy JJ, Blair GK, Fraser GC . Coagulopathy associated ...

Alex and Tanner Tracy learned that their unborn daughter, Lilly, had a tumor just 20 weeks into Alex's pregnancy. Lilly had a rare medical condition known as sacrococcygeal teratoma, where a tumor ...

Sacrococcygeal teratomas grow from a baby's tailbone and are four times more likely to occur in females. Most contain many blood vessels and they can grow internally, as well as externally.

Just minutes after she was born, a team of 25 began a six-hour operation to remove the sacrococcygeal teratoma from her tailbone – a condition that affects one in every 40,000 live births.

The presence in our patient of a papillary carcinoma of the thyroid in the sacrococcygeal area represents an extremely rare finding. Three lines of speculation are worth exploring to explain such ...