What are the symptoms of ovarian teratoma patients?

Ovarian teratoma is also called ovarian dermoid cyst by doctors and is a type of ovarian tumor disease. The cause of this disease is still unclear, so what are the symptoms of patients with ovarian teratoma?

Ovarian teratomas may present with various clinical symptoms and manifestations due to their different locations, multiple complications, and obvious malignant tendencies:

Symptoms of tumor malignant transformation: When malignant teratomas and benign teratomas transform into malignant tumors, they often show rapid growth of the tumor and loss of its original elasticity. Exophytic tumors may show engorgement and congestion of superficial veins, local skin infiltration, and increased skin temperature. It can metastasize through the lymph nodes and blood vessels, causing lymph node enlargement and lung and bone metastasis symptoms. At the same time, systemic symptoms such as weight loss, anemia, and tumor fever appear every day.

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 clinically accompanied by systemic infection or blood loss symptoms such as fever, anemia, and shock. Tumors in the retroperitoneum, ovaries, pelvis, sacrum, and other parts of the body may also suddenly rupture and cause severe manifestations such as massive bleeding, hemoperitoneum, and shock.

Symptoms of compression and cavity obstruction: Mediastinal teratoma can often compress the respiratory tract and cause choking, dyspnea and distended neck veins; retroperitoneal teratoma often causes abdominal pain and can cause intestinal obstruction. Pelvic and sacrococcygeal occult teratomas are often diagnosed due to constipation, difficulty in defecation, and urinary retention.

Painless mass: This is the most common symptom of teratoma. Most of them are round cystic, with clear boundaries, uneven texture, and even bony nodules can be palpated. Among them, exophytic tumors are common in midline locations such as the sacrococcygeal, occipital, forehead, and nose. Sacrococcygeal teratomas can often be divided into three medical clinical types according to their location: overt, latent, and mixed.