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[Surgical treatment of posterior mediastinal teratoma]
K Yokote1, H Osada, A Mochizuki
1Third Department of Surgery, St. Marianna Medical College, Kawasaki, Japan.
Kyobu Geka. the Japanese Journal of Thoracic Surgery
|December 1, 1995
Abstract:
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.