title: Successful Resection of Giant Mediastinal Lipofibroadenoma of the Thymus by Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery.
abstract: We report the case of a 20-year-old man who presented with a large heterogeneous mass incidentally found on a chest roentgenogram performed in the context of acute onset of fever and cough. A chest computed tomography scan showed a large heterogenous mass in the anterior mediastinum. The patient underwent surgical resection by a right video-assisted thoracoscopic approach. The resected mass was completely encapsulated and was histologically determined to be a lipofibroadenoma. Complete resection is curative. This is the sixth reported case of lipofibroadenoma of the thymus in the English literature and the first reported case of video-assisted thoracoscopic resection of a lipofibroadenoma.
authors.affiliation: Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota.
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Makdisi
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota.
authors.forename: Anja C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Roden
authors.affiliation: Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota. Electronic address: shen.krobert@mayo.edu.
authors.forename: K Robert
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Shen
mesh_terms: D018226:Fibroadenoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008482:Mediastinum; D012074:Remission Induction; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D055815:Young Adult