Anterior mediastinal mass 4 years after type A aortic dissection

A 47-year-old male who previously underwent emergency surgery for type A aortic dissection presented to the emergency department 4 years later with acute chest pain radiating to his back and a significant drop in hemoglobin. Clinical presentation was concerning for aortic graft failure, but imaging...

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Autores principales: Wallace, Alison, Marcuzzi, Danny, Ko, Micheal, Latter, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6354677/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30740207
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjz010
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description A 47-year-old male who previously underwent emergency surgery for type A aortic dissection presented to the emergency department 4 years later with acute chest pain radiating to his back and a significant drop in hemoglobin. Clinical presentation was concerning for aortic graft failure, but imaging revealed a large (6.0 × 3.2 × 12.8 cm(3)) soft tissue mediastinal mass that was not present 4 years before. Pathologic analysis revealed a rare thymic cyst with a hemorrhagic component. This was a challenging case from diagnostic and operative perspectives, involving the expertise of both cardiac and thoracic surgical teams.
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spelling pubmed-63546772019-02-08 Anterior mediastinal mass 4 years after type A aortic dissection Wallace, Alison Marcuzzi, Danny Ko, Micheal Latter, David J Surg Case Rep Case Report A 47-year-old male who previously underwent emergency surgery for type A aortic dissection presented to the emergency department 4 years later with acute chest pain radiating to his back and a significant drop in hemoglobin. Clinical presentation was concerning for aortic graft failure, but imaging revealed a large (6.0 × 3.2 × 12.8 cm(3)) soft tissue mediastinal mass that was not present 4 years before. Pathologic analysis revealed a rare thymic cyst with a hemorrhagic component. This was a challenging case from diagnostic and operative perspectives, involving the expertise of both cardiac and thoracic surgical teams. Oxford University Press 2019-01-31 /pmc/articles/PMC6354677/ /pubmed/30740207 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjz010 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author(s) 2019. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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