Successful thoracoscopic removal of a giant teratoma following extraction of cystic conponents: a case report.
Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery is a type of minimal-access surgery. The nature of the surgery means that there are limitations on the size of a tumor that can be removed through an access incision. Herein, we report our experience removing a giant teratoma (16 × 14 × 13 cm in size) from the anterior mediastinum of a young girl. We employed video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery to remove the teratoma through a mini-thoracotomy following the extraction of the cystic components.
Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan.
Yoshihiro
Y
Miyauchi
Hirochika
H
Matsubara
Tsuyoshi
T
Uchida
Hiroyasu
H
Matsuoka
Tomofumi
T
Ichihara
Masahiko
M
Matsumoto
D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D013724:Teratoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D013908:Thoracotomy / Q000379:methods
Mediastinal tumor; teratoma; thoracoscopic surgery