Giant Mediastinalganglioneuroma in a Female Child Volume 2 - Issue 5

Yasser A El Sayed¹*, Moh Fathy², Moh Salem³, Alaa Eisa⁴, Ashraf Enait⁵, Kerolos Emad⁶, Bothinah A Al Haseeb⁷ and Mona Atef⁷

• ¹Prof of Thoracic Surgery at the Medical Military Academy, Egypt
• ²Ass Prof of Neurosurgery, Al Azhar University, Egypt
• ³Cardiothoracic Surgery specialist
• ⁴Resident of Cardiothoracic Surgery
• ⁵Prof of Interventional Radiology
• ⁶Consultant Anesthesia
• ⁷Consultants of Pediatrics, Abbasia Pulmonary Hospital, Egypt

Received: January 24, 2020;   Published: February 06, 2020

Corresponding author: Yasser A El Sayed, Prof of Thoracic Surgery at the Military Medical Academy, Cairo, Egypt

DOI: 10.32474/ACR.2020.02.000149

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Abstract

We report an eight year female patient admitted to the department of pediatrics at Abbasia Pulmonary Hospital at Cairo, Egypt. The child was complaining of pain on the right lower chest and upper abdomen. On evaluation by CT of the chest, there was a huge posterior mediastinal mass occupying more than three quarters of the right hemithorax. Preoperative histopathology using CT guided needle biopsy revealed ganglioneuroma. The tumor was resected completely via right standard postero-lateral thoracotomy without complications. Postoperative histopathology confirmed the diagnosis of ganglioneuroma.

Keywords: Ganglioneuroma; Posterior mediastinum; Pediatrics

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