Parathyroid adenoma manifested by mediastinal hemorrhage: report of a case.
Acute mediastinal hemorrhage is rarely caused by a rupture of mediastinal neoplasms. We herein report a 70-year-old man who presented with mediastinal parathyroid adenoma manifested by the sudden onset of mediastinal bleeding. Preoperatively, he showed no symptoms or complications associated with hypercalcemia. No particular findings were found in the thorax except for a small nodule in the upper mediastinum. The nodule was resected through a collar incision, and pathohistology showed a parathyroid adenoma, with an intracapsular hemorrhage.
Nakajima
Jun
J
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Tokyo, Japan.
Takamoto
Shinichi
S
Tanaka
Makoto
M
Takeuchi
Eriho
E
Murakawa
Tomohiro
T
Kitagawa
Hiroshi
H
Fukayama
Masashi
M
D000236:Adenoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008477:Mediastinal Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D010282:Parathyroid Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed