Rare primary mature teratoma of the liver:A case report

作     者：Yury A Kovalenko Yury O Zharikov Yana V Kiseleva Anton B Goncharov Tatyana V Shevchenko Beslan N Gurmikov Dmitry V Kalinin Alexey V Zhao 

作者机构：Department of Surgical Oncology and ChemotherapyA.V.Vishnevsky National Medical Research Center of Surgery of the Russian Ministry of HealthcareMoscow 115093Russia Department of Human AnatomySechenov First Moscow State Medical University(Sechenov University)Moscow 119048Russia International School“Medicine of the Future”Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University(Sechenov University)Moscow 119048Russia Pathology DepartmentA.V.Vishnevsky National Medical Research Center of Surgery of the Russian Ministry of HealthcareMoscow 115093Russia 

出 版 物：《World Journal of Hepatology》 (世界肝病学杂志（英文版）（电子版）)

年 卷 期：2021年第13卷第12期

页      面：2192-2200页

学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Case report Primary liver teratoma Ectopic thyroid gland tissue Mature teratoma Epidermoi cyst 

摘      要：BACKGROUND Primary liver teratoma is an extremely rare tumor usually affecting children under the age of 3 *** signs of teratoma on ultrasound,computed tomography(CT)or magnetic resonance imaging are lacking,which makes morphology the only diagnostic *** of a mature teratoma may lead to excessive liver resection,whereas misdiagnosis of an immature teratoma may result in spread,causing a life-threatening ***,a careful tumor examination is important,and the rarest types of tumors must be accounted *** SUMMARY We describe a 52 years old female who presented with a solid mass in the left liver ***-enhanced CT and magnetic resonance imaging(MRI)revealed a round,heterogeneous lesion containing a number of fluid areas and areas of calcification in the middle,and the provisional diagnosis was *** patient underwent resection of liver segment *** analysis of the resected lesion indicated thyroid follicular epithelium;however,the thyroid gland was intact.10 years prior to presentation the patient underwent a surgery due to mature teratoma of the right ovary,nevertheless the tumor was benign and could not spread to the liver,in addition teratoma of the liver was also *** led to the final diagnosis of primary mature liver *** Primary hepatic teratoma,including heterotopia of the thyroid gland in the liver,is an extremely rare condition in adults that needs to be considered in the differential diagnosis of solid-cystic neoplasms in the liver and *** case adds to the limited literature on the patient presentation,clinical workup and management of liver teratomas.