CASE REPORTS   

Chirurgia 2015 December;28(6):227-8

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language: English

Uniportal VATS and primary posterior mediastinal myelolipoma string-of-pearl-type in an elderly woman

Erkan Y. ^{1, 2}, Cengiz Sen A. ³, Huban D. ³, Okay O. ⁴, Nedim P. ⁵, Gurcan V. ⁵

¹ Department of Thoracic Surgery, Istanbul Bilim University, Group Florence Nightingale Hospitals, Istanbul, Turkey; ² Department of Chest Diseases, Kadikoy Sifa Health Group, Istanbul, Turkey; ³ Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Kadikoy Sifa Health Group, Istanbul, Turkey; ⁴ Department of Pathology, Polat Pathology, Istanbul, Turkey; ⁵ Department of Pathology, Sitonet Sito‑Patoloji Merkezi, Istanbul, Turkey

We report a very rare case report of a 83-year-old woman with symptoms of cough, chest pain and shortness of breath who had a capsulated string-of-pearl-type bilateral giant posterior mediastinal masses (connecting to each other in front of the vertebra: right,7x5 cm and left, 3x4 cm) with massive symptomatic pleural effusion. It was straightforwardly resected using “an uniportal VATS approach” with an uneventful postoperative period.