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Giant mediastinal teratoma found during surgery after thoracic trauma
Paulo César Santos1, Cíntia Prado Maia, Juliana Carvalho Penha Pereira
1Hospital de Clínicas of the Federal University in Uberlândia. paulocir@hotmail.com
Abstract:
Most mediastinal tumors are incidentally diagnosed because they are asymptomatic. The aim of this paper is to report on the case of a 29-year-old male patient, who had an increase in cardiac area after blunt thoracic trauma. He was submitted to thoracotomy when a large mediastinal mass was found. The histopathological diagnosis was a mature mediastinal teratoma.