Pleural effusion as one of the most common manifestations of pulmonary diseases is a rare symptom of anterior mediastinal teratoma that might mislead general physicians. In this study we report a rare case of pleural effusion and anterior mediastinal teratoma accompanying each other. The patient was a 21-year-old woman who suffered from dyspnea, cough, fever and manifestations of pleural effusi...

We report a case of rhabdomyosarcoma which occurred in a mediastinal teratoma in a 44-year-old man. Presentation symptoms were chest pain, hoarseness and a cough. Diagnosis was fortuitous, performed by the histological and immunohistochemical study of a mediastinal tumour biopsy specimen that showed embryonal carcinoma and yolk sac tumour components associated with the rhabdomyosarcoma. After c...

We aimed to evaluate the histologic components of primary mediastinal mixed germ cell tumors. A total of 221 patients diagnosed with a mediastinal germ cell tumor (GCT) were retrospectively reviewed. Among them, 14 patients underwent surgical resection after chemotherapy and 8 patients were diagnosed with mixed GCT, who were then selected for further evaluation. Clinical chart review and histol...

Teratomas are types of germ cell tumor which can arise from gonads or extragonadal tissues and show malignant transformation. . In this article,We presented a patient with enteric adenocarcinoma on the basis teratoma mediastinal mass invading sternum

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.

TOPIC: Disorders of the Mediastinum TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Mature teratoma, a benign germ-cell tumor, commonly presents in ovaries. Extragonadal manifestation is uncommon and rarely occurs with superimposed infection. We present unique case extragonadal teratoma found mediastinum complicated by CASE PRESENTATION: A 24-year-old male history asthma presented 3-d...

Teratoma is a common tumour of the mediastinum but is rarely found in the lung. The twentieth reported case was published in 1975 by Day and Taylor and four cases have been published since.'-5 A rare condition, not previously recorded, was observed by us in a young male patient. He was found to have a mediastinal teratoma, which was followed 10 years later by the growth of an intrapulmonary ter...