[Ganglioneuroma detected in a patient over age 60].
We report a case of ganglioneuroma in a 67-year-old woman who presented with an abnormal shadow at a medical examination. She was admitted and chest radiography disclosed a mass in the upper right mediastinum. We suspected a mediastinal tumor after chest CT, chest MRI and bronchofiberscopic examination, and so surgical treatment was performed. The histopathological diagnosis was ganglioneuroma. Ganglioneuroma is thought of as a children's disease and adult onset is rare. We reasoned that ganglioneuroma should be included among the mediastinal tumors in patients over 60.
Hadase
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Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kyoto Second Red Cross Hospital 355-5, Haruobi-cho, Kamanza-dori, Marutamachi-agaru, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto 602-8026, Japan.
Arimoto
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T
Kuwahara
H
H
Takesako
T
T
Hara
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H
D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005729:Ganglioneuroma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed