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<journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Korean J Gynecol Oncol Colposc</journal-id>
<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">KJGOC</journal-id>
<journal-title-group>
<journal-title>Korean Journal of Gynecologic Oncology and Colposcopy</journal-title>
</journal-title-group>
<issn pub-type="ppub">0300-4015</issn><publisher>
<publisher-name>Korean Society of Gynecologic Oncology and Colposcopy</publisher-name>
</publisher>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3802/kjgoc.2004.15.3.240</article-id>
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<subj-group>
<subject>Case Report</subject>
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</article-categories>
<title-group>
<article-title>A Case of Pulmonary Mature Form Metastasis of Ovarian Immature Teratoma</article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Sin</surname>
<given-names>Jae Won</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1"></xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Kim</surname>
<given-names>Ye Jin</given-names>
</name>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Lee</surname>
<given-names>Sang Hyun</given-names>
</name>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Kim</surname>
<given-names>IL Dong</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1"></xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Cho</surname>
<given-names>Sung Jin</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1"></xref>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>

<aff id="A1">Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, National Medical Center, Seoul, <country>Korea</country>.</aff>

<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>09</month>
<year>2004</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>12</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2019</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>15</volume>
<issue>3</issue>
<fpage>240</fpage>
<lpage>245</lpage>

<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; Korean Society of Gynecologic Oncology and Colposcopy</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2004</copyright-year>
</permissions>

<abstract>
<p>Immature teratoma of ovary is a rare tumor, representing less than 1% of ovarian neoplasm, and arising from the primordial germ cell layer, and occurring primarily in young adult. Prior to the advent of combination chemotherapy prognosis of these patients was poor. Multiple agent chemotherapy has dramatically improved the prognosis of immature teratoma. Treatment involves surgical resection, usually followed by chemotherapy, result in transformation or evolution into a mature teratoma form of disease. By direct spread metastasis mainly happens with the surroundings internal organs, and the distant metastasis which lead the blood vessel is rare. A thirty three year old female underwent percutaneous needle aspiration for pulmonary metastatic tumor from immature teratoma. These specimens from the lung revealed no malignant findings. The concept of possible chemotherapeutic "retroconversion" or "in situ destruction" of immature tissue may be the mechanism for this result. Retroconversion of ovarian immature teratoma is rare reported was found which dealt with pulmonary metastatic lesion histologically. We report a rare case of mature form pulmonary metastasis of ovarian immature teratoma with a review of relevant literature.</p>
</abstract>

<kwd-group>
<kwd>immature teratoma</kwd>
<kwd>mature teratoma</kwd>
<kwd>retroconversion</kwd>
<kwd>pulmonary metastasis</kwd>
</kwd-group>

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