Pulmonary artery transection for resection of a middle mediastinal paraganglioma

Clin Case Rep. 2022 Apr 8;10(4):e05600. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.5600. eCollection 2022 Apr.

Abstract

We report the case of a 65-year-old male patient who presented with chest pain and was found to have a mediastinal paraganglioma between the left atrium and main pulmonary artery. This is the first reported case of a mediastinal paraganglioma resection utilization transection of the main pulmonary artery.

Keywords: cardiac tumor; cardiothoracic surgery; paraganglioma; pulmonary artery transection; tumor resection.

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