%0 Journal Article
%T Teratoma sacrococc¨ªgeo: revisi¨®n de la literatura a prop¨®sito de un caso
%A Sarmiento Portal
%A Yanett
%A Pilo£¿a Ruiz
%A Sergio
%A Crespo Campos
%A Angelicia
%A S¨¢nchez Monterrey
%A Iv¨®n Aim¨¦e
%A Portal Miranda
%A Mar¨ªa Elena
%A Iglesias Castro
%A Dania
%J Revista Cubana de Pediatr£¿-a
%D 2010
%I Editorial Ciencias M¨¦dicas
%X classically, the teratoma is defined like a tumor consisted of tissues from the three germinal layers of embryo (endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm). sacrococcygeal teratoma is a tumor located at the coccyx base with an incidence of 1 by 35 000 to 40 000 births and it is the commonest tumor in newborns with predominance in female sex. this is the case of a female newborn diagnosed with a benign sacrococcygeal type ii teratoma. authors offer a review on this subject.
%K sacrococcygeal teratoma
%K newborn
%K tumor.
%U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0034-75312010000300008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en