Mediastinal Tumors Treated in Our Clinic Since 1956

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  • Horio Hirotoshi
    Second Department of Surgery, Tottori University, School of Medicine
  • Nakamura Hiroshige
    Second Department of Surgery, Tottori University, School of Medicine
  • Ishiguro Kiyosuke
    Second Department of Surgery, Tottori University, School of Medicine
  • Hirota Yutaka
    Second Department of Surgery, Tottori University, School of Medicine
  • Fukuda Mikihisa
    Second Department of Surgery, Tottori University, School of Medicine
  • Araki Takeshi
    Second Department of Surgery, Tottori University, School of Medicine
  • Hara Hiroshi
    Second Department of Surgery, Tottori University, School of Medicine
  • Mori Tohru
    Second Department of Surgery, Tottori University, School of Medicine

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  • 当教室における縦隔腫瘍症例の検討
  • Follow-up Studies of Patients with Malignant Tumors
  • 悪性例の治療と予後を中心として

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Sixty patients with primary mediastinal tumors and two with extra-mediastinal thymomas have been treated in our clinic since 1956. Their clinical signs and symptoms were correlated with their prognosis. The primary tumors included thymomas (35%), teratomas (13%), neurogenic tumors (11%), lymphomas (10%) and miscellaneous other tumors. Malignant tumors were diagnosed histologically in 22 patients (45%). The incidence of malignancy was 72% in thymomas, 15% in teratomas, 14% in neurogenic tumors and 100% in lymphomas. No symptoms were present in 27% of the patients and most of these had benign tumors. The absence of symptoms, however, does not necessorily indicate benignity, and primary mediastinal tumors should be extirpated in any case. It is emphasized that one should aim to resect the tumor totally, even if adjacent tissues and organs should be resected simultaneously. It may improve the prognosis of the patient with an invasive mediastinal tumor.

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  • CRID
    1390282679328662784
  • NII Article ID
    130003444680
  • DOI
    10.2995/jacsurg1987.2.154
  • ISSN
    18841724
    09174141
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