Table 1.
Characteristics of Patients with Teratomas and Composition of These Tumors
| Patient | Tumor | Composition | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Age at diagnosis and sex | Localization | Histology | Skin + appendages | Cartilage | Bone | Resp. epith. | Muscle | Fat | Conn. tissue | Gut | Neural | Other |
| 1 | 2.7 yrs M | Testis | Ben. | X | X | X | X | ||||||
| 2 | 5.4 yrs M | Testis | Ben. | X | †‡ | ||||||||
| 3 | 4.45 yrs M | Testis | Ben. | X | |||||||||
| 4 | 4.7 yrs F | Ovary | Ben. | X | X | X | |||||||
| 5 | 12.4 yrs F | Ovary | Ben. | X | X | ||||||||
| 6 | 11 yrs F | Ovary | Ben. | X | X | X | |||||||
| 7 | 9.8 yrs F | Ovary | Ben. | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| 8 | 7.3 yrs F | Ovary | Ben. | X | X | X | |||||||
| 9 | 9.6 yrs F | Ovary | Ben. | X | X | X | X | ||||||
| 10 | 9.75 yrs F | Ovary | Ben. | X | X | X | |||||||
| 11 | 6.4 yrs F | Ovary | Ben. | X | X | X | |||||||
| 12 | 9.8 yrs F | Ovary | Ben. | X | |||||||||
| 13 | 66 d F | SCT | Ben. | X | X | X | † | ||||||
| 14 | 1 d F | SCT | Ben. | X | X | X | X | X | X | †‡ | |||
| 15* | 26 d F | SCT | Ben. | X | X | X | † | ||||||
| 16 | 6 d F | SCT | Ben. | X | X | X | X | X | X | § | |||
| 17 | 11.6 yrs F | Ovary | Imm. | X | X | X | |||||||
| 18 | 3 d F | SCT | Imm. | X | X | X | ‡ | ||||||
| 19 | 1 d F | SCT | Imm. | X | X | X | † | ||||||
| 20 | 1 d F | Abd. cavity | Imm. | X | X | X | † | ||||||
| 21 | 66 d M | Testis | Imm. | X | X | †§ | |||||||
| Total | 14 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 2 | 14 |
SCT, sacrococcygeal teratoma; Abd. cavity, abdominal cavity; Ben., benign; Imm., immature; Resp. epith., respiratory epithelium; Conn. tissue, connective tissue.
*Residual tumor; same patient as no. 14.
†Columnar epithelium.
‡Nonspecific glands.
§Transitional epithelium.