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 ...

CONCLUSION: The prognosis of mediastinal teratoma is excellent after complete or microscopically incomplete resection. In children with malignant GCT, the prognosis is favorable with a therapeutic ...

A 65-year-old man was referred for a mediastinal mass in the right paratracheal area that was found on a routine chest radiograph.

In this report the authors present a rare case of mediastinal tuberculoma mimicking a malignant cardiac tumor before operation and was finally diagnosed as cardiac tuberculoma by postoperative ...

Any account of a clinical experience with benign intrathoracic and mediastinal tumors would be incomplete without reference to those lesions that simulate tumor and cause confusion in differential ...

Discussion The common differential diagnostic considerations for anterior mediastinal masses include — but are not limited to — lymphoma, thyroid carcinoma, germ cell tumor and thymoma.

In this report the authors present a rare case of mediastinal tuberculoma mimicking a malignant cardiac tumor before operation and was finally diagnosed as cardiac tuberculoma by postoperative ...

Thirty-four patients presented with anterior mediastinal masses and underwent biopsy of the mass, including two needle biopsies. In two cases, patients underwent needle biopsies of the lung.

The mediastinum is the area in the centre of the chest, between the lungs. Mediastinal germ cell tumours are a type of tumour that grow in the mediastinum. They develop in a type of cell called germ ...