What are the symptoms of teratoma in life

Teratoma is a relatively rare disease. For many patients with teratoma, it is not easy to detect because of its small size and non-function, but some symptoms will still be manifested. Teratoma has different locations, often has multiple complications and obvious malignant tendencies, so there may be various symptoms and manifestations in clinical practice. The following is a detailed introduction to the symptoms of teratoma in life.

① Painless mass This is the most common symptom of teratoma. Most of them are round cystic with clear boundaries and uneven texture. Even bony nodules can be palpated. Exophytic tumors are common in midline areas such as the sacrococcygeal, occipital, forehead, and nose. Sacrococcygeal teratoma can be divided into three clinical types according to its location: overt, latent, and mixed.

②Compression and cavity obstruction symptoms: Mediastinal teratomas can often compress the respiratory tract and cause choking, dyspnea, and distended neck veins; retroperitoneal teratomas often cause abdominal pain and can cause intestinal obstruction. Pelvic and sacrococcygeal occult teratomas are often diagnosed due to constipation, difficulty defecating, and urinary retention.

③ Acute symptoms of abnormal tumor changes: Ovarian and testicular teratomas may cause ovarian or testicular torsion and necrosis, manifested by severe pain and corresponding local symptoms; when secondary infection and intracystic bleeding occur in teratomas, the tumor may often increase rapidly, with obvious local tenderness, and accompanied by fever, anemia, shock and other systemic infection or blood loss symptoms; tumors in the retroperitoneum, ovaries, pelvis, sacrum and coccyx may also suddenly rupture and cause massive bleeding, hemoperitoneum, shock and other dangerous manifestations.

④ Symptoms of tumor malignant transformation When malignant teratomas and benign teratomas transform, they often show rapid tumor growth, loss of original elasticity, and exophytic tumors with superficial venous distension and congestion, local skin infiltration and increased skin temperature. Lymph node enlargement and lung and bone metastasis symptoms may occur through lymphatic and blood circulation, as well as systemic symptoms such as weight loss, anemia, and tumor fever.

The above are the early symptoms of teratoma that we introduced to you. We hope it can be helpful to you.