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Report of a Case

BOZIDAR OBERMAN, MD

Arch Neurol. 1964;11(4):423-426.

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Intracranial teratomas belong to a group of rarely encountered anomalies. Most often they are found in the newborn, sometimes in children, and occasionally in adults. They have also been described in the fetus (Denes, Fromme).

The point of origin of the tumor is most frequently the pineal body, the lamina quadrigemina, or the third ventricle, including the pituitary region (Willis), and it may sometimes replace the whole brain.

Report of Case

In our case the teratoma was discovered in a stillborn infant whose mother was 28 years old and had been three times pregnant. Her first child had been born four years previously after a normal pregnancy and delivery. The following two pregnancies ended as miscarriages, one in the third and the other in the fourth month. The last pregnancy took a normal course. The mother was in good health throughout her preg nancy, and all other anamnestic data are . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
ZAGREB, YUGOSLAVIA

From the Department of Pathology, University of Zagreb Medical School, Zagreb, Yugoslavia.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication May 12, 1964; accepted June 12.

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