title: Pericarditis and pulmonary artery stenosis due to an extragonadal non-seminomatous germ cell tumor: case report and review of the literature.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Chest pain is a common complaint in the Emergency Department that rarely can be attributed to anterior mediastinal masses.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  We review the differential diagnosis for anterior mediastinal masses and their potential consequences.
  
  
  METHODS
  An unusual case of chest pain in a young male patient is presented that is caused by an anterior mediastinal mass associated with pericarditis and right ventricular outflow obstruction.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Pericarditis and right ventricular outflow obstruction are potential complications of anterior mediastinal non-seminomatous germ cell tumors.
authors.affiliation: Staff Emergency Physician, Captain USAF, Mike O'Callaghan Federal Medical Center, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.
authors.forename: Matthew A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Armstrong
authors.forename: Gary F
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Pollock
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000209:etiology; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D009373:Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal / Q000150:complications*; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000209:etiology*; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000473:pathology*; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms
keywords: extragonadal; germ cell tumor; mediastinal mass; pericarditis