Fetal sacrococcygeal teratoma

J Pediatr Surg. 1986 Jul;21(7):563-6. doi: 10.1016/s0022-3468(86)80404-3.

Abstract

Sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT) is being diagnosed before birth with increasing frequency. We were recently consulted about management of a 22-week fetus with SCT and reviewed our experience (6 cases) and the literature. We found that most fetal SCT present from 22 to 34 weeks gestation with a uterus enlarged by the tumor and/or associated polyhydramnios; although the American Academy of Pediatrics Surgical Section clinical classification is an important prognostic indicator in neonatal SCT, it does not appear to predict outcome in fetal SCT; associated chromosomal abnormalities or life threatening anomalies are rare; presentation after 30-weeks gestation is a relatively good prognostic sign with fetal survival, after planned cesarean delivery, in 6 of 8 cases; and hydrops and/or placentomegaly in association with fetal SCT predicts fetal demise soon after diagnosis with 7 of 7 cases dying in utero.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • Fetal Death / pathology
  • Fetal Diseases / pathology*
  • Gestational Age
  • Humans
  • Polyhydramnios / pathology
  • Pregnancy
  • Prognosis
  • Sacrococcygeal Region
  • Teratoma / pathology*