HODGKINS-DISEASE FOLLOWING SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF GASTRIC TERATOMA IN A NEONATAL FEMALE

Teratomas of gastric origin are rare. We are aware of 90 such tumors h aving previously been reported, all of which have been benign and only three of which have arisen in females. We report a gastric teratoma t hat presented as an exophytic gastric tumor in an 8-week-old female, t he fourth such recorded tumor in a female neonate. Complete surgical e xcision 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 associatio n of these two tumors.