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RAYMOND S. ROSEDALE, MSc, DAB

Arch Otolaryngol. 1965;82(5):535-542.

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A TERATOMA is a tumor composed of tissue derivatives of ectoderm, mesoderm, and entoderm. Tissue differentiation may be mature or immature. The most mature differentiation is represented by parasitic twinning which may be complete or anaplastic. In the field of otolaryngology examples of one extreme to the other have been reported. I¹ have presented a detailed anatomic dissection of a polygnathus epignathus, while Ewing² has referred to a more mature example described by Gross who observed a complete fetus, the size of a finger, in the neck of a woman.

Teratomas of the neck are exceedingly rare. As pointed out by Batsakis et al³ in the most recent report (1964) the subject has seldom appeared in otolaryngologic literature. These authors reported two cases and stated that these plus all the previously reported ones numbered only 87.

The first case recorded in the literature which would seem to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CANTON, OHIO

From the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery of the Head and Neck and the Department of Otolaryngology, Mercy and Timken-Mercy Hospitals.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Nov 19, 1965.

Presented at the meeting of Northeastern Ohio Pathologists, June 6, 1964.

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