{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2024,7,25]],"date-time":"2024-07-25T00:30:09Z","timestamp":1721867409172},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"African Journals Online (AJOL)","issue":"5","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Ethiop J Health Sci"],"abstract":"<jats:p>Background: Mature colonic teratomas are rare tumors and no case, to the best of our knowledge, has been reported from the African continent. In\u00a0 addition, some pedunculated teratomas in the colon have been treated by endoscopic polypectomy and classified as primary teratoma of the\u00a0 colon. We report a case of a distinct intra sigmoid pedunculated teratoma originating from the retroperitoneum of a 4-year-old African girl and we\u00a0 highlight the potential for misclassification of primary origin of endoscopically removed polypoid teratomas in the colon.\r\nCase Presentation: A 4\u00a0 year-old black African female child who presented with abdominal pain and hematochezia. On clinical assessment, she was found to be anaemic\u00a0 and to have a sigmoid colon mass. At surgery, there was a mobile mass within the lumen of sigmoid colon and the mass was fixed to the\u00a0 retroperitoneum by a stalk of tissue. Pathologist\u2019s review of the resected sigmoid segment showed a pedunculated intra-sigmoid mass with the stalk\u00a0 traversing the wall of the colon. The mass was histologically proven a mature solid teratoma.\r\nConclusion: This, to the best of our knowledge,\u00a0 is the first report of intra sigmoid teratoma from the African continent. It highlights the potential for misclassification of endoscopically resected\u00a0 colonic teratomas.\u00a0<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4314\/ejhs.v32i5.19","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,7,24]],"date-time":"2024-07-24T09:29:31Z","timestamp":1721813371000},"page":"1043-1056","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Mature Solid Teratoma of the Retroperitoneum Presenting as Sigmoid Colon Polyp with Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding: A Case Report"],"prefix":"10.4314","volume":"32","author":[{"given":"Nnaemeka Thaddeus","family":"Onyishi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Aiah","family":"Lebbie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Alie Amin","family":"Sesay","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Babatunde Moses","family":"Duduyemi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"2895","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,20]]},"container-title":["Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.ajol.info\/index.php\/ejhs\/article\/download\/232245\/219355","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/www.ajol.info\/index.php\/ejhs\/article\/download\/232245\/219355","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2024,7,24]],"date-time":"2024-07-24T09:29:32Z","timestamp":1721813372000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.ajol.info\/index.php\/ejhs\/article\/view\/232245"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,20]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"5","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,20]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4314\/ejhs.v32i5.19","relation":{},"ISSN":["2413-7170","1029-1857"],"issn-type":[{"value":"2413-7170","type":"electronic"},{"value":"1029-1857","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,20]]}}}