Ruptured mediastinal mature teratoma causing severe mediastinitis: report of a surgically resected case and a literature review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mediastinal teratomas occasionally rupture into the thoracic cavity, which induces mediastinitis or various other severe complications. Surgical treatment is crucial for ruptured teratomas; however, few literature reviews to date have addressed the characteristics of ruptured mediastinal teratomas.

Case presentation

We report a 29-year-old woman with severe mediastinitis owing to a mediastinal mature teratoma that ruptured into the mediastinum and right pleural cavity. Surgical resection by median sternotomy was performed within 24 hours after emergency admission. Intraoperative findings demonstrated the ruptured wall of the tumor with exposure of its white contents, which appeared similar to skin and fat, and necrotic tissue in the anterior mediastinum. The tumor

SUBMITTER: Nakajima E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7886921 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature