Case Report: Giant cholesterol granuloma in the anterior mediastinum

Abstract

Cholesterol granuloma is a rare entity, which can develop in many regions of the body, accounting at most 1% of all mediastinal tumors. Etiology of this granuloma is still not clearly understood. The gold standard choice of treatment for cholesterol granuloma is total surgical resection. Symptomatic mediastinum granuloma can be easily diagnosed, but if mass effect is not evident then diagnosis of this tumor is really challenging. We present a rare case of huge cholesterol granuloma in the anterior mediastinum of the patient who underwent on elective coronary artery graft bypass surgery.

Keywords: CABG; cholesterol granuloma; mediastinum; open heart surgery; tumor.