Teratoma malignant symptoms?

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Teratoma is a disease that many people are not familiar with. Actually, the incidence rate of this disease is still high. It will pose a great threat to the fertility of women, and the serious situation will also endanger the safety of women. Teratoma has benign and malignant distinction, there will be some differences in symptoms, teratoma malignant symptoms? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

Teratoma malignant symptoms?

Painless mass: This is the most common symptom of teratoma, mostly round cystic, clear boundary, uneven texture, and even palpable bone nodules. Sacrococcygeal teratoma can be divided into three clinical types according to its location: obvious type, occult type and mixed type.

Symptoms of compression and obstruction of lumen: mediastinal teratoma can often compress the respiratory tract and cause cough, dyspnea and jugular vein distention; Most retroperitoneal teratomas have abdominal pain and can cause intestinal obstruction. Pelvic and sacrococcygeal teratoma * are mostly due to constipation, difficulty in defecation and urinary retention.

The acute symptoms of abnormal changes of tumor: ovarian and testicular teratoma may have torsion and necrosis of ovary or testis, which is characterized by severe pain and corresponding local symptoms; When secondary infection and intracapsular hemorrhage occur in teratoma, the mass often increases rapidly, local obvious tenderness, accompanied by fever, anemia, shock and other systemic infection or bleeding symptoms; Retroperitoneal, ovarian, pelvic, sacrococcygeal and other parts of the tumor can also be suddenly ruptured, resulting in massive hemorrhage, blood abdomen, shock and other dangerous manifestations.

matters needing attention

Patients with teratoma should avoid strenuous exercise to prevent torsion and rupture. After the operation, we should pay attention to rest, forbid to take a bath in the same room for one month, and check regularly to guard against recurrence. At present, the etiology of teratoma is unknown, and there is no effective prevention method. The key is regular pelvic examination, early diagnosis and early treatment