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- Case Report -
A Case of Carcinoid Arising from a Mature Cystic Teratoma of the Mediastinum
Masaki Goto1, Mika Uchiyama11Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Komaki City Hospital, Japan
Background. A carcinoid arising from a mature cystic teratoma of the mediastinum is rare. Case. A 38-year-old man was admitted to our hospital for evaluation of an abnormal shadow on a chest radiograph. Chest CT scan and MRI showed a well-defined mass with calcification and heterogeneous components in the right anterior mediastinum. Video-assisted thoracic surgery was performed to resect the tumor, which was suspected to be a mediastinal teratoma. The histopathological diagnosis was a carcinoid arising from a mature cystic teratoma of the mediastinum. Conclusion. We report a rare case of a carcinoid arising from a mature cystic teratoma of the mediastinum.
key words: Mature cystic teratoma, Carcinoid, Mediastinal tumor
Received: August 27, 2012
Accepted: November 29, 2012
JJLC 52 (7): 1047-1051, 2012
