Abstract

Mesenteric teratoma is an extremely rare tumor, arising, akin all other teratomas, from totipotent primordial cells and displays a mixture of tissues of tridermal or bidermal origin. [1] As a rule, in children they are found in the sacrococcygeal region and less frequently in the gonads, cervical area, mediastinum, retroperitoneum, cranial cavity, nasopharynx and the upper jaw. Intra-abdominal positions are extremely rare and only 25 cases of mesenteric teratoma have been reported until 1999. [2, 3, 4]

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