PubMed, the Internet portal of biomedical and life sciences literature, indexed an interesting article, entitled Acute abdomen due to twisted ovarian immature teratoma in a 7-year-old girl: magnetic resonance findings with histopathologic correlation. (Pediatr Emerg Care. 2008 Aug;24(8):557-60.). Authors are Boraschi P Donati F Battaglia V. et al., from the 2nd Department of Radiology, Pisa University Hospital, Italy. Immature teratomas represent only the 1% of ovarian teratomas, and they are the third most common primitive germ cell tumor; generally, they are congenital lesions and affect mainly the first 2 decades. We present the case of a 7-year-old child who came at our attention because of an acute low abdominal pain due to the torsion of an ovarian immature grade 1 teratoma on its pedicle. After ultrasound in the emergency department, preoperative evaluation was done by performing a magnetic resonance study, whose findings helped in suggesting the curative approach. The magnetic resonance imaging characteristics of the neoplasm are reviewed and correlated with histopathologic findings. To access the full abstract of the article, click here.
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