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Parathyroid adenoma manifested by mediastinal hemorrhage: report of a case
Jun Nakajima1, Shinichi Takamoto, Makoto Tanaka
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Tokyo, Japan.
Surgery Today
|August 31, 2002
Abstract:
Acute mediastinal hemorrhage is rarely caused by a rupture of mediastinal neoplasms. We herein report a 70-year-old man who presented with mediastinal parathyroid adenoma manifested by the sudden onset of mediastinal bleeding. Preoperatively, he showed no symptoms or complications associated with hypercalcemia. No particular findings were found in the thorax except for a small nodule in the upper mediastinum. The nodule was resected through a collar incision, and pathohistology showed a parathyroid adenoma, with an intracapsular hemorrhage.