Lung Cancer Along with a Mediastinal Mature Cystic Teratoma: A Case Report

Seock Yeol Lee; Jae Sung Choi; Mee Hye Oh; Seung Jin Lee; Cheol Sae Lee

doi:10.6058/jlc.2009.8.1.31

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Lee, Choi, Oh, Lee, and Lee: Lung Cancer Along with a Mediastinal Mature Cystic Teratoma: A Case Report

Original Article

J Lung Cancer 2009;8(1):31-33.

Published online: 10 January 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6058/jlc.2009.8.1.31

Lung Cancer Along with a Mediastinal Mature Cystic Teratoma: A Case Report

Seock Yeol Lee, M.D.¹, Jae Sung Choi, M.D.², Mee Hye Oh, M.D.³, Seung Jin Lee, M.D.¹, Cheol Sae Lee, M.D.¹

¹Departments of Chest Surgery

²Internal Medicine

³Anatomic Pathology, Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital, Cheonan, Korea

Address for correspondence Seock Yeol Lee, M.D. Department of Chest Surgery, Soon-chunhyang University Cheonan Hospital, 23-20, Bongmyung-dong, Nam-dong-gu, Cheonan 330-721, Korea Tel: 82-41-570-2193 Fax: 82-41-575-9674 E-mail: csdoctor@schca.ac.kr

Received 13 March 2009 Accepted 14 April 2009

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

A mediastinal mass and 2 lung masses on the lower lobes were detected by chest CT in a 44-year old woman. The mass on the left lower lobe was diagnosed as an adeno type of cancer by preoperative lung biopsy. But the preoperative lung biopsy exam for the mass on the right lower lobe couldn’t perform because of patient's noncooperation. Removal of the mediastinal mass, left lower pulmonary lobectomy and wedge resection of the right lower pulmonary lobe were done. The histopathologic diagnosis of the resected mediastinal mass was mature cystic teratoma and both lung masses were the adeno type of cancer with the same histopathologic patterns. We experienced a rare case of lung adeno cancer together with mediastinal mature cystic teratoma.

Keywords: Mediastinal mass, Teratoma, Mature cystic teratoma, Lung neoplasms

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Fig. 1.

Chest X-ray showing the superior mediastinal mass.

Fig. 2.

Chest CT showing the mediastinal mass (A, white arrow), the left lung mass (B, black arrow) and the right lung mass (C, black arrow).

Fig. 3.

Picture showing the resected mediastinal mass with sebum (A) and the cavitary mass on the left lower lobe of the lung (B, arrow).

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