Management of Sacrococcygeal Teratoma in a Center Hospital Environment in Senegal

Abstract

Sacrococcygeal teratoma (TSC) is an embryonic tumor with high potential for congenital malignant transformation. It is rare and therefore considered a neonatal surgical emergency. The authors report a case of sacrococcygeal teratoma whose mother did not follow up during pregnancy and the delivery took place at home and who comes for consultation six months after his birth. It emerges from this case that the delay in diagnosis was due to the lack of financial means in the periphery, the extreme surgery could be performed with simple post-operative follow-ups. The result of the anatomopathological examination of the surgical specimen concluded to a benign teratoma. The patient could not be reassessed in the medium and long term because he is lost of seen.