Blindness: a rare and serious complication after extensive mediastinal resection.
We describe the case of a patient in whom blindness developed as a result of superior vena cava syndrome after resection of a primary mediastinal nonseminomatous germ cell tumor.
Akkersdijk
George P
GP
Department of Vascular Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center, Daniel den Hoed Cancer Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
van Geel
Albertus N
AN
D000328:Adult; D001766:Blindness / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness / Q000473:pathology*; D009373:Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000379:methods; D018570:Risk Assessment; D013479:Superior Vena Cava Syndrome / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D013908:Thoracotomy / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods