Mesenteric cystic teratoma in children

Mesenteric teratoma is an extremely rare tumor ,arising,akin all other teratomas ,from totipent primordial cells and displays a mixture of tissues of tridermal or bidermal origin. Two cases of mature mesenteric teratoma in a 5-month- old girl and 4-month-old boy , the youngest reported in literature excluding a case recently dagonosed prenatally, are described . Diagonastic tools ,differential diagonosis and management are also discussed. (author)