Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg.  2005 Oct;38(10):729-732.

Treatment of Mediastinal Growing Teratoma Syndrome: A case report

• Cho JH
• Son HS
• Jo WM
• Min BJ
• Lee IS
• Shin JS

Abstract

A 15-year-old male was admitted with right-sided chest pain and cough for one month. On chest computed tomographic scan, a 10 x 15 x 16 cm-sized huge mediastinal mass was occupied in the right hemithorax. Radiologically, it seemed that the tumor was severely adhesive on the heart and the superior vena cava. Therefore we decided on chemotherapy and radiotherapy first instead of surgery. The tumor marker was nearly normalized afterwards, but the tumor size was seemed to be bigger on chest tomographic scan. This suggests the growing teratoma syndrome. After the successful resection, he showed symptomatic improvement and is being followed up without any symptoms in an out patient department up to now.

Keyword

Mediastinal neoplasms; Teratoma

MeSH Terms

Adhesives
Adolescent
Chest Pain
Cough
Drug Therapy
Heart
Humans
Male
Mediastinal Neoplasms
Radiotherapy
Teratoma*
Thorax
Vena Cava, Superior
Adhesives