Male student escapes after surgery to remove rare large tumor in chest

People's Hospital 115, Ho Chi Minh City, has just successfully operated on a 20-year-old male student with a very large mediastinal tumor.

About 2 weeks before admission, the patient began to have pain in the back area right at the shoulder blade; the pain radiated to the front of the chest with a feeling of tension and fatigue. The results of chest X-ray and contrast CT scan at the hospital showed a tumor measuring 10cm x 7cm x 7cm in the chest; there was a localized fluid collection in the right atrium and a collapsed lower lobe of the right lung.

The patient underwent surgical resection of the tumor under general anesthesia. After 7 days, the fatigue, chest pain, and back pain disappeared, and the patient returned to school and normal activities. Pathological results confirmed that the tumor was a mature mediastinal teratoma.

Doctors at People's Hospital 115 performed surgery to remove a mature mediastinal tumor from a 20-year-old male student.

Notably, the patient played many sports such as soccer, badminton, table tennis and swimming. According to doctors, it is rare for a young person to have a disease like this. Before that, the disease also had no obvious symptoms.

Mediastinal teratomas are rare, usually benign germ cell tumors, accounting for about 60% of all germ cell tumors in the mediastinum. The tumor consists of differentiated tissues from one or more embryonic cell layers: ectoderm, mesoderm, endoderm.

Mature teratomas are usually slow-growing, have few symptoms, and are often discovered incidentally on chest X-rays. The main symptoms when the tumor compresses nearby structures are chest pain, difficulty breathing, cough, or lung infection.

Imaging methods including X-ray, chest CT, echocardiography and MRI help determine the location, size, relationship of the tumor to neighboring structures, as well as describe the internal components including soft tissue, fat and calcification.

Surgical resection is the main treatment for mature mediastinal teratoma, helping patients recover and preventing complications due to compression of vital organs or risk of malignancy.

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