Primary choriocarcinoma of the posterior mediastinum is considered to be extremely rare, and the majority of these tumors occur in the gonads and uterus. The current study presents the case of a 40-year-old male who presented to the Department of Thoracic Surgery (Medical College of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China) with left chest pain for two months. Computed tomography of the chest showe...

A case of an asymptomatic 32-year-old male with a complex congenital pulmonary vein varix is reported herein. Chest X-ray incidentally revealed a tubular opacity passing from the periphery of the left lingula to the mediastinum. ECG gated multidetector computed tomography showed the opacity to be a vessel emptying into the left atrium via the left superior pulmonary vein. In addition, a second ...

Rosai-Dorfman disease (RDD) consists of sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy. Extranodal involvement occurs in up to 43% of cases. However, isolated soft tissue RDD is rare. Isolated mediastinal RDD is exceedingly rare, and there have been only three previous reports. Involvement of the posterior mediastinum in RDD has been reported only in the context of disseminated RDD. Here, we ...

Fig. 2. Intra-operative view of the tumour, giant and encapsulated, with the left lower lobe of the lung displaced and elevated (A). In gross appearance, it was thinly encapsulated, dull pale yellow in colour with a smooth surface covered with many feeding vessels, 22 21 20 cm in size (B). On cut section, the mass consisted of adipose tissue with a fibrous core (C). Histological examination of ...

A mediastinal Mullerian cyst was initially reported as a new category of congenital cyst by Hattori, et al. in 2005. We treated a 53-year-old female referred to us with a posterior mediastinal tumor found at the Th5 prevertebral level by chest-computed tomography during a medical check-up. She had a history of mediastinal teratoma, which was removed at the age of 35. Chest magnetic resonance im...

Journal of Thoracic Oncology ® • Volume 8, Number 8, August 2013 A 64-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital complaining of progressive dyspnea, fatigue, and cough. Physical examination showed dullness on percussion and decreased breath sounds in the lower zones of the right hemithorax. The chest radiograph revealed a huge right basithoracic mass. On computed tomography, a well-circumscrib...