Pathology cases — Teratoma

These are always popular.  This is a case of a middle-aged woman who died of sudden cardiac death related to supermorbid obesity.  As an incidental fining, there was a 14.5 cm adnexal mass:

On cut surface, it was a thin-walled generally simple cyst filles with greasy debris, bur with a small basilaar nodule that contained hair and cartilage:

On histologic examination, there was  benign-appearing cartilage, squamous epithelium, cartilage, respiratory-like epithelium, and mucous/sebaceous glands:

 

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