Mature Cystic Teratoma of the Mediastinum Containing a Carcinoid. A Case Report

Chair and Department of Pathomorphology, Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University, Krakow,
Thoracic Surgery Ward, Specialistic Center of Lung Diseases, Bystra Slaska

Abstract

We report a case of mature mediastinal teratoma containing mature pancreatic tissue and carcinoid in a 57-year-old woman who underwent a successful surgical operation. Apart from gonads the mediastinum is the most frequently involved site of germ cell tumours accounting for about 2 - 6% of these neoplasms [1, 3, 7]. Germ cell tumours account for 1 - 15% of mediastinal neoplasms in adults and for 25% of mediastinal neoplasms in children [2, 8]. Teratomas make up 80% of germ cell tumours in the mediastinum [3].

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