Intracranial monodermal teratoma presenting with growing teratoma syndrome
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Intracranial teratomas are rare. We report a case of a purely monodermal teratoma manifesting as intracranial growing teratoma syndrome. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of such nature in the literature.
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دوره 2017 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2017