[A case of posterior mediastinal ganglioneuroma with fat tissue].
We present a rare case of posterior mediastinal ganglioneuroma with fat tissue. A 50-year-old man visited our Department of Internal Medicine because of hypertension and fatty liver. On screening with abdominal CT a soft tissue tumor was found in the posterior mediastinum. CT and MRI revealed that the tumor appeared to have an abundant fatty component. To obtain a definitive diagnosis, the tumor was resected thoracoscopically. The histological diagnosis was ganglioneuroma. A ganglioneuroma containing a fat component has rarely been reported after cross-sectional imaging. We infer that the tumor may have resulted from spontaneous regression, with subsequent infiltration of adipose tissue from the posterior mediastinum.
Hasegawa
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Department of Radiology, Okayama University Hospital.
Kato
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K
Yamamoto
H
H
Nishi
H
H
Hiraki
Y
Y
D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000473:pathology*; D005729:Ganglioneuroma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged