title: [Posterior mediastinal paraganglioma with a 60-year history; report of a case].
abstract: We report a case of a 68-year-old man with a posterior mediastinal tumor. He remembered having difficulty in food passage through his esophagus in childhood. The preoperative thoracic computed tomography (CT) revealed a 5 x 3 cm mass with strong enhancement in the posterior mediastinum. A right thoracotomy was performed to resect this indeterminate mass. Complete resection was achieved. The pathologic diagnosis was paraganglioma. Postoperatively, he experienced more comfortable food passage through his esophagus than ever before. There has been no sign of recurrence 3 years after the operation. The tumor was clinically diagnosed as benign paraganglioma because of its long silent course.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Kinki-chuo Chest Medical Center, Sakai, Japan.
authors.forename: Masashi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Goto
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Iuchi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Matsumura
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Okumura
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Matsuda
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003679:Deglutition; D003680:Deglutition Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D010235:Paraganglioma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed