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

Eri NakajimaYujin KudoSachio MaeharaHideyuki FurumotoJun MatsubayashiYoshihisa ShimadaMasaru HagiwaraToshitaka NagaoTatsuo OhiraNorihiko Ikeda

Published in: Surgical case reports (2021)

To our knowledge, this is the report of successful surgical resection of a ruptured mediastinal teratoma causing severe mediastinitis, with the first literature review of ruptured mediastinal teratomas. We also discuss relevant findings from reports in the literature.

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