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Intracranial teratomas are a rare type of neoplastic malformation. Together with dermoids and epidermoids the frequency is about 1%. Teratomas by themselves account for approximately 0.3% [7]. Typical locations are the pineal or the sella turcica region. Rarely intracerebral teratomas can be found in the floor of the third ventricle or in both lateral ventricles [5]. If one considers only reports of those intracranial teratomas with parts of all three germ layers, reports with CT-scans are rare [1, 3, 7, 12]. The following study gives a report of an unusual intracerebral neoplastic malformation misdiagnosed by CT-scan.
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Ebhardt, G., Traupe, H., Könner, J., Goerke, L. (1982). Intracranial Teratoma of a Newborn. Computer Tomographic and Morphological Findings. In: Voth, D., Gutjahr, P., Langmaid, C. (eds) Tumours of the Central Nervous System in Infancy and Childhood. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95413-9_25
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