Mediastinal mature teratoma with complex rupture into the lung, bronchus and skin: a case report

Mature teratoma is the most common primary germ cell tumor in the mediastinum. On rare occasions, cystic teratomas rupture in adjacent structures, such as pleural space, pericardium, lung or tracheobronchial tree. We present a case of a mediastinal mature cystic teratoma in 16-year-old female with c...

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Autores principales: Serraj, Mounia, Lakranbi, Marouane, Ghalimi, Jamal, Ouadnouni, Yassine, Smahi, Mohamed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3674925/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23725382
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-11-125
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author Serraj, Mounia
Lakranbi, Marouane
Ghalimi, Jamal
Ouadnouni, Yassine
Smahi, Mohamed
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Lakranbi, Marouane
Ghalimi, Jamal
Ouadnouni, Yassine
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description Mature teratoma is the most common primary germ cell tumor in the mediastinum. On rare occasions, cystic teratomas rupture in adjacent structures, such as pleural space, pericardium, lung or tracheobronchial tree. We present a case of a mediastinal mature cystic teratoma in 16-year-old female with complex rupture into the lung, bronchus and skin. Mature mediastinal teratoma fistulized to the skin has not been previously described.
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spelling pubmed-36749252013-06-07 Mediastinal mature teratoma with complex rupture into the lung, bronchus and skin: a case report Serraj, Mounia Lakranbi, Marouane Ghalimi, Jamal Ouadnouni, Yassine Smahi, Mohamed World J Surg Oncol Case Report Mature teratoma is the most common primary germ cell tumor in the mediastinum. On rare occasions, cystic teratomas rupture in adjacent structures, such as pleural space, pericardium, lung or tracheobronchial tree. We present a case of a mediastinal mature cystic teratoma in 16-year-old female with complex rupture into the lung, bronchus and skin. Mature mediastinal teratoma fistulized to the skin has not been previously described. BioMed Central 2013-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3674925/ /pubmed/23725382 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-11-125 Text en Copyright ©2013 Serraj et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Serraj, Mounia
Lakranbi, Marouane
Ghalimi, Jamal
Ouadnouni, Yassine
Smahi, Mohamed
Mediastinal mature teratoma with complex rupture into the lung, bronchus and skin: a case report
title Mediastinal mature teratoma with complex rupture into the lung, bronchus and skin: a case report
title_full Mediastinal mature teratoma with complex rupture into the lung, bronchus and skin: a case report
title_fullStr Mediastinal mature teratoma with complex rupture into the lung, bronchus and skin: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Mediastinal mature teratoma with complex rupture into the lung, bronchus and skin: a case report
title_short Mediastinal mature teratoma with complex rupture into the lung, bronchus and skin: a case report
title_sort mediastinal mature teratoma with complex rupture into the lung, bronchus and skin: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3674925/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23725382
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-11-125
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