The growth was a benign ovarian teratoma, a type of tumour that begins in the egg cells of women and sperm cells of men. A TEENAGE girl has had a tumour with a miniature brain inside it removed from ...

In an historic cemetery of the Chapel of the Divino Niño Serranito de Eten on the north coast of Peru, bioarchaeologists have discovered nearly 500 burials dating to the Colonial Period. One skeleton ...

The tissue-culture method used was based on a previously reported technic devised for the study of cervical epithelium. 11 Excised human ovarian cystic teratomas were taken to the laboratory and ...

The human body is a very complex system of organs that work together for the survival of the human being. Sometimes, though, it can play strange little tricks on humans just to show what it is capable ...

Large teratomas can lead to serious complications like ovarian torsion, which can cut off blood flow to the ovary and affect fertility. Here's what to know. Dr Kunal Sood, an anesthesiology and ...

For months, Savannah Stuthers was told the intense pain and bleeding she was experiencing was just due to ‘hormones’. But the truth was far more disturbing: for the 20-year-old student had unknowingly ...

A team of researchers has found the first ancient remains of a calcified ovarian teratoma, in the pelvis of the skeleton of a woman from the Roman era. The find confirms the presence in antiquity of ...

Discovering that you have a tumor is bad enough—but what if doctors told you that your tumor was growing a brain? (Cue freakout.) A new case report published in the journal Neuropathology details how ...

A team of researchers led by the UAB has found the first ancient remains of a calcified ovarian teratoma, in the pelvis of the skeleton of a woman from the Roman era. The find confirms the presence in ...