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Giant mediastinal teratoma found during surgery after thoracic trauma

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.

Teratoma; Mediastinal neoplasms; Mediastinum


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