Rare occurrence of pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) syndrome arising from a malignant transformed ovarian primary mature cystic teratoma treated by cytoreductive surgery and HIPEC: a case report

Table 1 Prevalence of malignant transformations of mature cystic teratomas

Histopathological type	Prevalence (% of MT)
Squamous cell carcinoma	80 [13]
Adenocarcinoma	5 [13]
Transitional cell carcinoma	<1 [14]
Malignant melanoma	0.2–0.8 [15]
Thyroid carcinoma	0.1–0.2 [16]
Carcinoid tumor	<0.1 [17]

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