Rapidly Grown Huge Mediastinal Benign Teratoma: one case report.
- Author:
Sung Woo JO
1
;
Hyun Geun JEE
;
Hyun Sung AHN
;
Eun Sook NAM
Author Information
1. Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, Hallym Univ., Medical College.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Mediastinal neoplasm;
Teratoma
- MeSH:
Adolescent;
Diagnosis;
Female;
Humans;
Mediastinal Neoplasms;
Pathology;
Teratoma*;
Thoracotomy;
Thorax
- From:The Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
2000;33(6):521-524
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
The benign teratoma is usually slow growing tumor, but we expirienced a case of primary huge mediastinal benign teratoma that had grown very rapidly, maximally during 3 years. The 14-year-old female patient was admitted to our hospital because of abnormal chest X-ray that showed 10x10cm sized well definded mass with multiple calcificactions. but the mass was not present in chest X-ray perfomed on 3 years prior to admission. Under the diagnosis of teratoma, complete surgical resection was done by the left thoracotomy. The result of pathology was benign teratoma.
