title: [Surgical treatment of posterior mediastinal teratoma].
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.
authors.affiliation: Third Department of Surgery, St. Marianna Medical College, Kawasaki, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yokote
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Osada
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mochizuki
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kurisu
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yamate
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Taira
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013724:Teratoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed