[Surgical treatment of posterior mediastinal teratoma].
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.
Yokote
K
K
Third Department of Surgery, St. Marianna Medical College, Kawasaki, Japan.
Osada
H
H
Mochizuki
A
A
Kurisu
S
S
Yamate
N
N
Taira
Y
Y
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