BACKGROUND Liposarcoma is the single most common soft tissue sarcoma. Because mediastinal liposarcomas often grow rapidly and frequently recur locally despite adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy, they require complete excision. Therefore, the feasibility of achieving complete surgical excision must be carefully considered. We here report a case of a huge mediastinal liposarcoma resected via ...

Castleman’s disease, giant lymph node hyperplasia, is a kind of benign lymphoproliferative disease with gentle behavior. Its etiology and prevalence are unclear. This rare disease is usually found in mediastinal area asymptomatically and incidentally. It is also rare to see this tumor in the retroperitoneum. In this study, we have introduced a 34-year-old woman who referred just with occasional...

INTRODUCTION Mediastinal dumbbell tumors are rare, and special cases provide valuable knowledge to the existing literature. PRESENTATION OF CASE A 57-year-old woman was diagnosed with a recurrent dumbbell-shaped nerve sheath tumor with intrathoracic and intraspinal components. We attempted to resect the tumor via combined biport thoracoscopy and laminectomy with the patient in a prone positio...

OBJECTIVE We report an extremely rare case of germ-cell tumor localized at the level of the anterior mediastinum. CLINICAL PRESENTATION A 36-year-old man who presented with left subclavial vein thrombosis was admitted to our hospital for specific cure. Computed tomographic scan of the chest showed a large anterior mediastinal mass. Surgical intervention revealed an infiltrative mediastinal tu...

The synchronous occurrence of pulmonary tuberculosis and bronchial carcinoid tumor is unusual. Although pulmonary tuberculosis can coexist with all histological types of lung cancer, few coexisting cases of bronchial carcinoid tumor and pulmonary tuberculosis have been reported. We present coexistent bronchial carcinoid tumor and pulmonary tuberculosis in the same lobe. A 39-year-old woman was ...

Benign epithelioid schwannoma is a very rare variant of schwannoma, that can pose a diagnostic challenge. The reported cases were predominantly located in dermal/subcutaneous tissue. Although conventional schwannoma occurring in the posterior mediastinum was common, to our knowledge, no mediastinal benign epithelioid schwannoma was reported in English literature. Herein, we presented a case of ...

A 39-year-old man was referred to hospital with a giant mediastinal mass, thrombocytopenia and high levels of serum tumor markers. Flow cytometry of bone marrow and peripheral blood samples led to the diagnosis of a mediastinal germ cell tumor associated with hematologic neoplasia. He was treated with combination chemotherapy for a germ cell tumor and acute myeloid leukemia. After chemotherapy,...

INTRODUCTION Liposarcoma is rare in the mediastinum and is less than 1% of all mediastinal tumors. In the present report, we demonstrated our case and summarized the principal treatment of the mediastinal liposarcoma with literature review. PRESENTATION OF CASE A 50-year-old man presented at our hospital with complain of dyspnea. Chest radiography showed remarkable cardiomegaly. Computed tomo...

As tumor grows within lung parenchyma or within bronchial wall, it ultimately invades lymphatic and vascular channels, resulting in spread to regional draining lymph nodes and remote metastatic sites, respectively. It appears that lymphatic spread occurs earlier than distant metastases, involving broncho-pulmonary (N1), mediastinal (N2-N3) and supra-clavicular lymph nodes (N3). The primary tumo...