title: Intrapulmonary cystic benign teratoma: a case report and review of the literature.
abstract: We describe a 41-year-old woman with a short history of retrosternal chest pain and non-productive cough due to a benign intrapulmonary teratoma originating from the left upper lobe. The clinical, CT features of this rare tumor are presented and the relevant literature is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Dieter
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zenker
authors.forename: Ivan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Aleksic
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000209:etiology; D003371:Cough / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005334:Fever / Q000209:etiology; D006469:Hemoptysis / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery*; D018579:Patient Selection; D035583:Rare Diseases; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D017678:Sex Distribution; D013546:Sweating; D013724:Teratoma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery*; D013908:Thoracotomy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D015431:Weight Loss