Strategy for management of newborns with cervical teratoma
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Antoine De Backer
Abstract
Background: Cervical teratomas are extremely rare tumors with high perinatal mortality and morbidity rates.
Objective: To compare our experience and outcome in newborns with cervical teratoma with similar reports from the literature, in order to propose a structured approach.
Methods: A retrospective review of seven patients treated between 1986 and 2000 was performed. The results of these seven patients were compared with and added to a series of 44 well-documented patients retrieved from the literature.
Results: In four of the seven patients, the diagnosis was not suspected antenatally. Three of the patients survived, one died. In the other three, the diagnosis was made antenatally. Two were born using the ex-utero intrapartum treatment (EXIT) procedure, one by planned cesarean section. Only one of these three survived. Mortality in the total series of 51 patients was 33% overall, and 46% in the group in which the diagnosis had been made antenatally. Peri- and post-operative complications were reported in 27%. Although larger tumors caused polyhydramnios more frequently than smaller tumors, and were associated with more severe respiratory distress, the relationship between tumor volume at birth and final outcome could not be established. This makes difficult the identification of fetuses with a disastrous prognosis.
Conclusion: Although mostly benign, cervical teratomas are still associated with high mortality rates. Timely antenatal diagnosis is indispensable in reducing morbidity and mortality caused by upper airway obstruction. A structured approach to the management of cervical teratoma is proposed.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Contents
- Difficult delivery of the impacted fetal head during cesarean section: intraoperative disengagement dystocia
- Breech presenting twin A: is vaginal delivery safe?
- Maternal serum interleukin-1β, -6 and -8 levels and potential determinants in pregnancy and peripartum
- Comparison between HELLP syndrome, chronic hypertension, and superimposed preeclampsia on chronic hypertension without HELLP syndrome
- Fetal scalp pH and ST analysis of the fetal ECG as an adjunct to CTG. A multi-center, observational study
- Effects of nitric oxide and prostacyclin on hemodynamic response by big endothelin-1 in near term fetal sheep
- Strategy for management of newborns with cervical teratoma
- Predicting neonatal outcomes: birthweight, body mass index or ponderal index?
- Markers of platelets activation, CD 62P and soluble P-selectin in healthy term neonates
- Detection of parvovirus B19, cytomegalovirus and enterovirus infections in cases of intrauterine fetal death
- Plasma endothelin-1 and clinical manifestations of neonatal sepsis
- Noncompaction of the left ventricular myocardium diagnosed in pregnant woman and neonate
- Ventricular bigeminy misdiagnosed as fetal bradycardia by cardiotocography – the value of non-invasive fetal electrocardiography
- Prolonged fetal bradycardia as the presenting clinical sign in Streptococcus agalactiae chorioamnionitis
- Changes of blood pressure and heart rate variability precede a grand mal seizure in a pregnant woman
- Myocardial infarction in early pregnancy
- The baby and the bathwater – a comment
- Reply to the opinion paper “The baby or the bathwater: which one should be discarded?”