{"title":"A rare case of a mature intramedullary cystic teratoma in an adult female: A case report and literature review.","authors":"Qinyang Zhang, Xuepeng Liu, Haijun Li","doi":"10.5152/j.aott.2025.24039","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A 51-year-old female with a 10-year history of progressive low back pain presented with a 9 × 15 mm circular tumor adjacent to L1 on preoperative magnetic resonance imaging. The lesion was successfully removed by T12-L2 laminectomy and nail-rod fixation. Histopathological examination diagnosedmature intramedullary cystic teratoma. At 6-month follow-up, right lower limb numbness and pain were reduced.</p>","PeriodicalId":93854,"journal":{"name":"Acta orthopaedica et traumatologica turcica","volume":"59 2","pages":"129-132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12070423/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Acta orthopaedica et traumatologica turcica","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5152/j.aott.2025.24039","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A 51-year-old female with a 10-year history of progressive low back pain presented with a 9 × 15 mm circular tumor adjacent to L1 on preoperative magnetic resonance imaging. The lesion was successfully removed by T12-L2 laminectomy and nail-rod fixation. Histopathological examination diagnosedmature intramedullary cystic teratoma. At 6-month follow-up, right lower limb numbness and pain were reduced.