Surgical treatment of posterior mediastinal teratoma
Yokote, K.; Osada, H.; Mochizuki, A.; Kurisu, S.; Yamate, N.; Taira, Y.
Kyobu Geka. Japanese Journal of Thoracic Surgery 48(13): 1144-1146
1995
ISSN/ISBN: 0021-5252 PMID: 8815264 Document Number: 440914
A 22-year-old male patient was admitted to our hospital because of an abnormal shadow on a chest X-ray taken for routine examination. Preoperative diagnostic work up including chest computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging suggested that the tumor would most likely to be a posterior mediastinal lipoma. Through a right thoracotomy the tumor was removed successfully. Histologically it proved to be a mature teratoma. The incidence, etiology and diagnostic procedure of the mediastinal teratoma was discussed.