Open AccessHuge mediastinal germ cell tumor with “white‐out” chest X‐ray imaging of the left lung
Author(s) -
Suzuki Shigeki,
Takahashi Yusuke
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
thoracic cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.823
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1759-7714
pISSN - 1759-7706
DOI - 10.1111/1759-7714.12941
Subject(s) - medicine , mediastinum , parasternal line , radiology , lung , mediastinal tumor , thorax (insect anatomy) , lung cancer , mediastinal lymphadenopathy , biopsy , malignancy , anterior mediastinum , mediastinal mass , surgery , anatomy
A 21-year-old man was brought to our hospital via ambulance because he could not move at all as a result of severe dyspnea. Chest X-ray showed diffuse consolidation with “white-out” of the whole left lung and a shift of the mediastinum toward the right (Fig 1). Chest contrast enhanced computed tomography (CT) showed an irregularly enhanced huge mass in the left thorax and there was no air component in the left lung (Fig 2).