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| A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS |
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| Year : 2009 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 83 |
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Teratoma
Saad Alkhafaji1, Rashid Mazhar2, Cornelia S Carr3, Abdul M Alkhulaifi3
1 MRCS, Cardiothoracic Surgery,Department of Cardiology & Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
2 FRCS,Cardiothoracic Surgery,Department of Cardiology & Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
3 FRCS(CTh), Cardiothoracic Surgery,Department of Cardiology & Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
| Date of Web Publication | 17-Jun-2010 |
Correspondence Address:
Saad Alkhafaji
MRCS, Cardiothoracic Surgery,Department of Cardiology & Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha
Qatar
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
How to cite this article:
Alkhafaji S, Mazhar R, Carr CS, Alkhulaifi AM. Teratoma. Heart Views 2009;10:83 |
[Additional file 1]The patient, a 30-year-old man, presented with a 6-month history of worsening dyspnea. The chest x-ray showed widened mediastinum and pulse oxymetry showed desaturation from 93% to 63% when supine. CT scan (shown above) showed massive anterior mediastinal mass causing severe cardiac and pulmonary artery compression. Doppler echocardiography revealed right ventricular outflow tract obstruction with a gradient of 143 mmHg. He underwent surgical excision of the mass, which was found to contain hair and sebum on inspection. Histology confirmed mature teratoma, grade I/III. The patient made a good recovery and was discharged.
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