Asymptomatic giant mediastinal mass: a rare case of thymolipoma

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Autor(a) principal: Mourad,Omar Moté Abou
Data de Publicação: 2009
Outros Autores: Andrade,Filipe Moreira de, Abrahão,Pedro, Monnerat,Andréa, Judice,Luiz Felippe
Tipo de documento: Relatório
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia (Online)
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-37132009001000012
Resumo: Thymolipoma is a very rare benign neoplasm of the thymus. We present the case of a 42-year-old male with a massive mediastinal tumor discovered on a chest X-ray after a motorcycle accident. The patient had no complaints, and his physical examination was unremarkable. Chest CT scans revealed a lipomatous mass containing areas of soft tissue density. The patient was submitted to median sternotomy expanded to left anterolateral thoracotomy, resulting in the complete excision of the tumor. The pathological diagnosis was thymolipoma. Thymolipoma usually attains enormous dimensions by the time of diagnosis, and the occasional symptoms are related to compression of adjacent structures. Surgical resection is the treatment of choice and offers the only possibility of cure. The airway deserves special care during anesthesia induction.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Asymptomatic giant mediastinal mass: a rare case of thymolipoma
title Asymptomatic giant mediastinal mass: a rare case of thymolipoma
spellingShingle Asymptomatic giant mediastinal mass: a rare case of thymolipoma
Mourad,Omar Moté Abou
Thymus neoplasms
Mediastinal neoplasms
Thymectomy
Lipoma
title_short Asymptomatic giant mediastinal mass: a rare case of thymolipoma
title_full Asymptomatic giant mediastinal mass: a rare case of thymolipoma
title_fullStr Asymptomatic giant mediastinal mass: a rare case of thymolipoma
title_full_unstemmed Asymptomatic giant mediastinal mass: a rare case of thymolipoma
title_sort Asymptomatic giant mediastinal mass: a rare case of thymolipoma
author Mourad,Omar Moté Abou
author_facet Mourad,Omar Moté Abou
Andrade,Filipe Moreira de
Abrahão,Pedro
Monnerat,Andréa
Judice,Luiz Felippe
author_role author
author2 Andrade,Filipe Moreira de
Abrahão,Pedro
Monnerat,Andréa
Judice,Luiz Felippe
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Mourad,Omar Moté Abou
Andrade,Filipe Moreira de
Abrahão,Pedro
Monnerat,Andréa
Judice,Luiz Felippe
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Thymus neoplasms
Mediastinal neoplasms
Thymectomy
Lipoma
topic Thymus neoplasms
Mediastinal neoplasms
Thymectomy
Lipoma
description Thymolipoma is a very rare benign neoplasm of the thymus. We present the case of a 42-year-old male with a massive mediastinal tumor discovered on a chest X-ray after a motorcycle accident. The patient had no complaints, and his physical examination was unremarkable. Chest CT scans revealed a lipomatous mass containing areas of soft tissue density. The patient was submitted to median sternotomy expanded to left anterolateral thoracotomy, resulting in the complete excision of the tumor. The pathological diagnosis was thymolipoma. Thymolipoma usually attains enormous dimensions by the time of diagnosis, and the occasional symptoms are related to compression of adjacent structures. Surgical resection is the treatment of choice and offers the only possibility of cure. The airway deserves special care during anesthesia induction.
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