Symptomatic posterior mediastinal angioleiomyoma.
We report a case of a symptomatic angioleiomyoma in the left posterior mediastinum. A 66-year-old woman presented with left back and flank pain for 6 months. Chest computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a well-circumscribed 4.3 cm round mass. The mass was initially diagnosed as nerve sheath tumor, because of her symptoms and its close location to the sympathetic trunk and intercostal nerve. It was uneventfully removed through video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. The pathology revealed an angioleiomyoma.
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Hoseok
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Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Pusan National University Hospital, 1-10 Ami-dong, Seo-gu, Busan 602-739, Korea.
Jeong
Yeon Joo
YJ
Choi
Kyung Un
KU
Kim
Yeong-Dae
YD
D000368:Aged; D018229:Angiomyoma / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008482:Mediastinum / Q000473:pathology*