title: Pulmonary mass and air meniscus sign in a 19-year-old man.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Servei de Pneumologia, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Roig
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Aguilar
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Maestre
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Domingo
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Morera
mesh_terms: 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*