Manuchehr Aghajanzadeh
1*, Ali Alavi
2, Zahra Pourrasouli
3, Gilda Aghajanzadeh
3, Sara Massahnia
31 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Razi Hospital, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran
2 Department of Pulmonology, Razi Hospital, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran
3 Respiratory Diseases & TB Research Center of Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Razi Hospital, Rasht, Iran
Abstract
The patient was 35-year-old women with a six-month history of difficulty breathing and chest pain. An anterior-posterior chest radiograph revealed a widened mediastinum with small lung volumes. During his diagnostic evaluation, a computed tomographic scan was performed and with huge mass in the anterior mediastinum with extension to the left and right side of pleural space. With postero-lateral thoracotomy the huge mass was resected. The patient discharged with good condition.