What tests should teratoma patients undergo after arriving at the hospital

Regarding teratoma, first of all, we need to have a certain understanding of the cause of teratoma. Teratoma is a common cell tumor disease, so teratoma patients must pay special attention to it. Moreover, there are many reasons for the occurrence of teratoma, and teratoma patients must actively seek cure. So, what examinations should teratoma patients do after going to the hospital?

Common tests for teratomas include:

1. Physical examination or gynecological examination pelvic B-ultrasound discovery. The best way to detect teratoma is through ultrasound examination.

2. Acute abdominal pain. Ovarian teratoma may cause ovarian torsion and necrosis, which manifests as severe pain and corresponding local symptoms. If the teratoma is secondary infected and has intracystic bleeding, it can often rapidly increase in size, with obvious local tenderness, accompanied by fever, anemia, shock and other symptoms.

3. Menstrual abnormalities. Teratoma may cause menstrual abnormalities, such as irregular cycles, heavy or light menstruation.

4. Discovered during cesarean section. For some obese or pregnant people, it is not easy to find teratomas during B-ultrasound. Therefore, some women find teratomas in their abdomen during cesarean section, and the doctor will remove the teratoma.

5. Discovery of long-term infertility examination. Some women have been infertile for many years after marriage, and only found out that it was teratoma when they went to the hospital for examination.

6. Feeling a bulge. Some people's teratomas have grown very large, with a big belly. Young women think they are "accidentally pregnant" and older women think they are gaining weight. Once they go to the hospital for a checkup, the disguised teratoma is exposed.

7. Spine X-rays show a large or obvious widening of the intervertebral cavity, narrow pedicles at the site of the lesion, widened distance between pedicles, concavity of the posterior edge of the vertebral body, and in some cases, manifestations of spina bifida.

8. CT and MRI have obvious advantages in diagnosing teratomas, and both can better show the heterogeneity of tumors. On MRI images, teratomas appear as mixed signals, often with intact cyst walls, rich in fat signals, with or without intratumoral enhancement nodules, and usually, in addition to the tumor, are often accompanied by spina bifida or vertebral dysplasia.

This is the end of the explanation of teratoma examination. I hope that patients will go to a professional teratoma hospital for a good examination and avoid misdiagnosis, because misdiagnosis will lead to incorrect treatment of teratoma. Finally, I wish all teratoma patients to recover from their disease as soon as possible.