Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery (Jun 2007)

Teratoma gigante de mediastino: achado cirúrgico pós-trauma torácico Giant mediastinal teratoma found during surgery after thoracic trauma

  • Paulo César Santos,
  • Cíntia Prado Maia,
  • Juliana Carvalho Penha Pereira,
  • Tassiane Cintra de Alvarenga Oliveira

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0102-76382007000200017
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 2
pp. 252 – 254

Abstract

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A maioria dos tumores mediastinais são assintomáticos e, portanto, são descobertos incidentalmente. O objetivo desse trabalho é descrever o caso de um paciente do sexo masculino, de 29 anos de idade, com grande aumento da área cardíaca após trauma torácico fechado, sendo submetido à toracotomia. Foi encontrada grande massa no mediastino e o diagnóstico anatomopatológico foi de teratoma mediastinal maduro.Most mediastinal tumors are incidentally diagnosed because they are asymptomatic. The aim of this paper is to report on the case of a 29-year-old male patient, who had an increase in cardiac area after blunt thoracic trauma. He was submitted to thoracotomy when a large mediastinal mass was found. The histopathological diagnosis was a mature mediastinal teratoma.

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