Ann Thorac Surg 2009;87:1961. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.09.035
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Images in Cardiothoracic Surgery
Chronic Expanding Mediastinal Hematoma
Tomoyuki Nakano, MD,
Shunsuke Endo, MD*,
Mitsuhiro Nokubi, MD,
Hiroyoshi Tsubochi, MD
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Jichi Medical University and Saitama Medical Center, Tochigi, Japan
* Address correspondence to Dr Endo, Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, 1-3311, Yakushiji, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, 329-0498, Japan (Email: tcvshun@jichi.ac.jp).
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A 70-year-old man, who had sustained a blunt chest injury 20 years earlier, presented for an examination for a 10-cm asymptomatic, slowly enlarging spherical tumor in the right-side mediastinum on chest roentgenogram taken at 2007 (Fig 1). The diameter had been 6 cm on chest roentgenogram taken in 2002 (Fig 2).
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Physical findings were normal, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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