title: Giant mediastinal teratoma found during surgery after thoracic trauma.
abstract: Most mediastinal tumors are incidentally diagnosed because they are asymptomatic. The aim of this paper is to report on the case of a 29-year-old male patient, who had an increase in cardiac area after blunt thoracic trauma. He was submitted to thoracotomy when a large mediastinal mass was found. The histopathological diagnosis was a mature mediastinal teratoma.
authors.affiliation: Hospital de Clínicas of the Federal University in Uberlândia. paulocir@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Paulo César
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.forename: Cíntia Prado
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Maia
authors.forename: Juliana Carvalho Penha
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.forename: Tassiane Cintra de Alvarenga
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Oliveira
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D033162:Incidental Findings; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D013724:Teratoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D013898:Thoracic Injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed