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- Title
Traumatic Rupture of A Posterior Mediastinal Teratoma following Motor-Vehicle Accident.
- Authors
Bell, Christopher; Domingo, Fernando; Miller, Ashley D.; Smith, Jeremiah S.; Headrick, James R.
- Abstract
We report a case of a posterior mediastinal mature cystic teratoma with rupture secondary to blunt chest trauma in a 20-year-old male involved in a motor-vehicle accident. Initial treatment was guided by Advanced Trauma Life Support and a tube thoracostomy was performed for presumed hemothorax. The heterogeneous collection within the thoracic cavity was discovered to be the result of a ruptured cystic mass. Pathologic findings confirmed the mass consistent with a mature cystic teratoma. As mediastinal teratomas are most commonly described arising from the anterior mediastinum, the posterior location of the teratoma described in this report is exceedingly rare.
- Subjects
THORACOSTOMY; MALES; TRAFFIC accidents; CHEST (Anatomy); DISEASES
- Publication
Case Reports in Surgery, 2016, p1
- ISSN
2090-6900
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1155/2016/7172062