Pulmonary mass and air meniscus sign in a 19-year-old man.
Sacrococcygeal teratoma is rarely diagnosed in adults. Pulmonary mass as the presenting clinical form of the malignant variety of this germ-cell tumor is exceptional. We report herein such a case with the noticeable peculiarity of showing the air meniscus sign on chest roentgenographic examination.
Roig
J
J
Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Servei de Pneumologia, Barcelona, Spain.
Aguilar
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X
Maestre
J
J
Domingo
C
C
Morera
J
J
D000328:Adult; D003050:Coccyx; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D012447:Sacrum; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms; D013724:Teratoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*