Mediastinal Teratoma Mimicking Neurofibroma in CT-Guided Biopsy in a Patient With Neurofibromatosis Type 1

Teratomas are a type of germ cell tumor that may contain several different types of tissue. Neurofibroma is a benign peripheral nerve sheath tumor with the plexiform type being pathognomonic for neurofibromatosis type 1. We report a case of a 33-year-old woman with a background of Neurofibromatosis...

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Autores principales: Gkikas, Andreas, Mitsos, Sofoklis, Antonopoulos, Achilleas, Korodimos, Nikolaos, Santaitidis, Elias, Koufopoulos, Nektarios, Gouloumis, Alina-Roxani, Tomos, Periklis
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10122137/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37095824
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36562
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author Gkikas, Andreas
Mitsos, Sofoklis
Antonopoulos, Achilleas
Korodimos, Nikolaos
Santaitidis, Elias
Koufopoulos, Nektarios
Gouloumis, Alina-Roxani
Tomos, Periklis
author_facet Gkikas, Andreas
Mitsos, Sofoklis
Antonopoulos, Achilleas
Korodimos, Nikolaos
Santaitidis, Elias
Koufopoulos, Nektarios
Gouloumis, Alina-Roxani
Tomos, Periklis
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description Teratomas are a type of germ cell tumor that may contain several different types of tissue. Neurofibroma is a benign peripheral nerve sheath tumor with the plexiform type being pathognomonic for neurofibromatosis type 1. We report a case of a 33-year-old woman with a background of Neurofibromatosis type 1 who presented with left-sided chest pain and shortness of breath. She was diagnosed with a large mediastinal mass which was confirmed from a CT-guided biopsy as neurofibroma. Following a multidisciplinary team discussion, she underwent mediastinal mass resection and the final histopathology report revealed mediastinal mature teratoma.
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spelling pubmed-101221372023-04-23 Mediastinal Teratoma Mimicking Neurofibroma in CT-Guided Biopsy in a Patient With Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Gkikas, Andreas Mitsos, Sofoklis Antonopoulos, Achilleas Korodimos, Nikolaos Santaitidis, Elias Koufopoulos, Nektarios Gouloumis, Alina-Roxani Tomos, Periklis Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Teratomas are a type of germ cell tumor that may contain several different types of tissue. Neurofibroma is a benign peripheral nerve sheath tumor with the plexiform type being pathognomonic for neurofibromatosis type 1. We report a case of a 33-year-old woman with a background of Neurofibromatosis type 1 who presented with left-sided chest pain and shortness of breath. She was diagnosed with a large mediastinal mass which was confirmed from a CT-guided biopsy as neurofibroma. Following a multidisciplinary team discussion, she underwent mediastinal mass resection and the final histopathology report revealed mediastinal mature teratoma. Cureus 2023-03-23 /pmc/articles/PMC10122137/ /pubmed/37095824 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36562 Text en Copyright © 2023, Gkikas et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Gkikas, Andreas
Mitsos, Sofoklis
Antonopoulos, Achilleas
Korodimos, Nikolaos
Santaitidis, Elias
Koufopoulos, Nektarios
Gouloumis, Alina-Roxani
Tomos, Periklis
Mediastinal Teratoma Mimicking Neurofibroma in CT-Guided Biopsy in a Patient With Neurofibromatosis Type 1
title Mediastinal Teratoma Mimicking Neurofibroma in CT-Guided Biopsy in a Patient With Neurofibromatosis Type 1
title_full Mediastinal Teratoma Mimicking Neurofibroma in CT-Guided Biopsy in a Patient With Neurofibromatosis Type 1
title_fullStr Mediastinal Teratoma Mimicking Neurofibroma in CT-Guided Biopsy in a Patient With Neurofibromatosis Type 1
title_full_unstemmed Mediastinal Teratoma Mimicking Neurofibroma in CT-Guided Biopsy in a Patient With Neurofibromatosis Type 1
title_short Mediastinal Teratoma Mimicking Neurofibroma in CT-Guided Biopsy in a Patient With Neurofibromatosis Type 1
title_sort mediastinal teratoma mimicking neurofibroma in ct-guided biopsy in a patient with neurofibromatosis type 1
topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10122137/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37095824
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36562
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