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History of Teratomas

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The Human Teratomas

Part of the book series: Contemporary Biomedicine ((CB,volume 3))

Abstract

The recognition of teratomas stretches in time from fragmentary descriptions in ancient times to increasingly frequent gross anatomical observations in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Clinical observations of the biologic behavior of teratomas likewise expanded from isolated descriptions of patients with tumors in various locations to reports of series of cases with increasing knowledge of clinical signs and symptoms. The understanding of the genesis of these tumors, initially attributed to demons and various forms of sexual misbehavior, languished half-buried under the weight of 19th century speculations (Pauly, 1875) until experimental biologists working in the past 15–20 yr began to unravel some of the mysteries of germ cell development and cellular differentiation.

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Wheeler, J.E. (1983). History of Teratomas. In: Damjanov, I., Knowles, B.B., Solter, D. (eds) The Human Teratomas. Contemporary Biomedicine, vol 3. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5628-1_1

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