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| Year : 2021 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 124-125 |
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Unilateral opaque hemithorax secondary to teratoma
Yogeshwari Manivannan, K Anupama Murthy
Department of Respiratory Medicine, PSG Institute of Medical Science and Research, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
Correspondence Address:
Yogeshwari Manivannan
Department of Respiratory Medicine, PSG Institute of Medical Science and Research, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/japt.japt_36_21
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Mediastinal teratoma makes nearly 8%–13% of all mediastinal tumors, with peak incidence seen in young patients. A 26-year-old male presented with complaints of nonproductive cough, breathlessness, right side chest pain, and fever for 1-week duration. Chest X-ray showed homogeneous opacity of the right hemithorax with blunting of the right costophrenic angle. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography thorax showed multiloculated cystic lesion with the area of fat calcification in the right side of the upper mediastinum. Ultrasonography-guided biopsy shows feature suggestive of benign teratoma. Most teratoma tends to exhibit heterogeneous attenuation on computer tomography imaging.
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