What are the early symptoms of teratoma?

Teratoma, I believe many people are unfamiliar with this disease. Of course, this disease is also a very rare disease in our medical clinic. In fact, there are many types of teratoma, and the clinical symptoms of the disease are also varied, so it is difficult to prevent and diagnose. Teratoma has different locations, often has multiple complications and obvious malignant tendencies, so what are the early symptoms of teratoma? Let's introduce them in detail below.

① Painless mass This is the most common symptom of teratoma. Most of them are round cystic, with clear boundaries and uneven hardness. Even bony nodules can be palpated. Exophytic tumors are common in the midline of the sacrum, occipital, forehead, and nose. Sacrococcygeal teratomas can be divided into three clinical types according to their location: overt, occult, and mixed. ② Compression and cavity obstruction symptoms Mediastinal teratomas can often compress the respiratory tract and cause choking, dyspnea, and distended neck veins; retroperitoneal teratomas often have abdominal pain and can cause intestinal obstruction. Pelvic and sacrococcygeal occult teratomas are often diagnosed due to constipation, difficulty in defecation, and urinary retention.

③ Acute symptoms of abnormal tumor changes: Ovarian and testicular teratomas may cause ovarian or testicular torsion and necrosis, manifested by severe pain and corresponding local symptoms; when secondary infection and intracystic bleeding occur in teratomas, the tumor may often increase rapidly, with obvious local tenderness, and accompanied by fever, anemia, shock and other systemic infection or blood loss symptoms; tumors in the retroperitoneum, ovaries, pelvis, sacrum and coccyx may also suddenly rupture and cause massive bleeding, hemoperitoneum, shock and other dangerous manifestations.

④ Symptoms of tumor malignant transformation When malignant teratomas and benign teratomas transform, they often show rapid tumor growth, loss of original elasticity, and exophytic tumors with superficial venous distension and congestion, local skin infiltration and increased skin temperature. Lymph node enlargement and lung and bone metastasis symptoms may occur through lymphatic and blood circulation, as well as systemic symptoms such as weight loss, anemia, and tumor fever.

Because this type of disease occurs in many patients at different ages, we must be vigilant about it.