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Treatment of Mediastinal Growing Teratoma Syndrome - A case report -  

Cho Jong Ho (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, College of Medicine, Korea University)
Son Ho Sung (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, College of Medicine, Korea University)
Jo Won Min (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, College of Medicine, Korea University)
Min Byoung Ju (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, College of Medicine, Korea University)
Lee In Sung (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, College of Medicine, Korea University)
Shin Jae Seung (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, College of Medicine, Korea University)
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Journal of Chest Surgery / v.38, no.10, 2005 , pp. 729-732 More about this Journal
Abstract
A 15-year-old male was admitted with right-sided chest pain and cough for one month. On chest computed tomographic scan, a $10\times15\times16$ em-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.
Keywords
Mediastinal neoplasms; Teratoma;
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