PURPOSE: To evaluate children and adolescents with primary mediastinal teratoma and malignant germ cell tumors (GCTs). PATIENTS AND METHODS: Forty-seven patients from the German nontesticular GCT ...

TERATOID tumors originating in the anterior mediastinum are well known. In our experience they constitute the commonest tumor at this site. The majority are cystic and benign.1 Morphologically, var ...

A 57-year-old female nonsmoker presented with cough and left-sided chest pain.She underwent a chest radiograph and CT scan. Chest CT suggested several possible differential diagnostic ...

His primary care physician ordered a CT scan (Figure 2) that showed a 5.5-cm oval mass with smooth borders that displaced the upper lobe of the patient’s lung in the anterior mediastinum.

Leiomyomata of the esophagus may be quite bulky, simulating mediastinal tumor; ... For some anterior tumors, a submammary approach with intercostal incision has been successfully employed, ...

CD200, an immunoglobulin superfamily membrane glycoprotein, is expressed in a number of B cell lymphoproliferative disorders, including primary mediastinal large B cell lymphoma, but not diffuse ...

You could have a cancer without raised marker levels. ... Extragonadal germ cell tumors involving the mediastinum and retroperitoneum UpToDate D Feldman and others Last accessed April 2025.

Mediastinal tuberculoma mimicking malignant cardiac tumor. Compuscript Ltd. Journal Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications DOI 10.15212/CVIA.2019.0587 ...

RESULTS: In all patients with teratoma, tumor markers were normal. Surgery of teratoma was complete in 17 of 21 patients and microscopically incomplete in four of 21 patients, ... Primary Mediastinal ...