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Sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT) is the most common germ cell tumor in neonates. Because of the recent progress in prenatal diagnosis, the number of prenatally diagnosed patients with SCT is increasing. These patients frequently have a huge tumor, which results in high-output heart failure, consumption coagulopathy, and respiratory distress. Thus, these patients are sometimes forced to undergo high-risk surgery. Older patients with SCT have an increased chance of malignancy, which must be treated not only by surgery but also with chemotherapy. The author herein describes the operative procedures for SCT and the pre- and postsurgical management of SCT patients.
The figures in this chapter are reprinted with permission from Standard Pediatric Operative Surgery (in Japanese), Medical View Co., Ltd., 2013, with the exception of occasional newly added figures that may appear.
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Yoneda, A. (2016). Sacrococcygeal Teratoma. In: Taguchi, T., Iwanaka, T., Okamatsu, T. (eds) Operative General Surgery in Neonates and Infants. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55876-7_63
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