Hodgkin's Disease Following Successful Treatment of Gastric Teratoma in a Neonatal Female

Abstract

Teratomas of gastric origin are rare. We are aware of 90 such tumors having previously been reported, all of which have been benign and only three of which have arisen in females. We report a gastric teratoma that presented as an exophytic gastric tumor in an 8-week-old female, the fourth such recorded tumor in a female neonate. Complete surgical excision was followed by clinical and biochemical surveillance without adjuvant treatment. At 1 year the patient was well without evidence of residual or recurrent disease. The child developed Hodgkin's disease 3 years later, and we believe this to be the first recorded association of these two tumors.

Key Words:

• gastric teratoma
• Hodgkin's disease
• neonatal