Triple-Rule-Out Computed Tomography Scanning for the Diagnosis of a Mediastinal Tumor

Thymomas are rare tumors that commonly lie in the anterior mediastinum. The arteries supplying thymomas branch from the internal thoracic arteries and their collaterals. This report presents a patient with huge mediastinal thymoma, whose sensational vascularization is ensured directly by a single do...

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Autores principales: Useini, Dritan, Taghiyev, Zulfugar, Bechtel, Matthias, Strauch, Justus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2019
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6801126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31637152
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-1697602
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author Useini, Dritan
Taghiyev, Zulfugar
Bechtel, Matthias
Strauch, Justus
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description Thymomas are rare tumors that commonly lie in the anterior mediastinum. The arteries supplying thymomas branch from the internal thoracic arteries and their collaterals. This report presents a patient with huge mediastinal thymoma, whose sensational vascularization is ensured directly by a single dominant tributary branch of the left internal thoracic artery. After initially performed computed tomography angiography, the tumor was suspect to be vascularized from the right coronary artery. Triple-rule-out computed tomography scan was a key step for accurate radiologic diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-68011262019-10-21 Triple-Rule-Out Computed Tomography Scanning for the Diagnosis of a Mediastinal Tumor Useini, Dritan Taghiyev, Zulfugar Bechtel, Matthias Strauch, Justus Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Rep Thymomas are rare tumors that commonly lie in the anterior mediastinum. The arteries supplying thymomas branch from the internal thoracic arteries and their collaterals. This report presents a patient with huge mediastinal thymoma, whose sensational vascularization is ensured directly by a single dominant tributary branch of the left internal thoracic artery. After initially performed computed tomography angiography, the tumor was suspect to be vascularized from the right coronary artery. Triple-rule-out computed tomography scan was a key step for accurate radiologic diagnosis. Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2019-01 2019-10-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6801126/ /pubmed/31637152 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-1697602 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which permits unrestricted reproduction and distribution, for non-commercial purposes only; and use and reproduction, but not distribution, of adapted material for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited.
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