Treatment of Mediastinal Growing Teratoma Syndrome: A case report.
- Author:
Jong Ho CHO
1
;
Ho Sung SON
;
Won Min JO
;
Byoung Ju MIN
;
In Sung LEE
;
Jae Seung SHIN
Author Information
1. Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, College of Medicine, Korea University. jason@korea.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Mediastinal neoplasms;
Teratoma
- MeSH:
Adhesives;
Adolescent;
Chest Pain;
Cough;
Drug Therapy;
Heart;
Humans;
Male;
Mediastinal Neoplasms;
Radiotherapy;
Teratoma*;
Thorax;
Vena Cava, Superior
- From:The Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
2005;38(10):729-732
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
A 15-year-old male was admitted with right-sided chest pain and cough for one month. On chest computed tomographic scan, a 10 x 15 x 16 cm-sized huge mediastinal mass was occupied in the right hemithorax. Radiologically, it seemed that the tumor was severely adhesive on the heart and the superior vena cava. Therefore we decided on chemotherapy and radiotherapy first instead of surgery. The tumor marker was nearly normalized afterwards, but the tumor size was seemed to be bigger on chest tomographic scan. This suggests the growing teratoma syndrome. After the successful resection, he showed symptomatic improvement and is being followed up without any symptoms in an out patient department up to now.
