Lt. Col. Ioannis Ch. PAPACHRISTOS, MD, Consultant Thoracic Surgeon 

Lt.Col. Ioannis Ch. PAPACHRISTOS, M.D.

ESTS Regent for Greece, Consultant Thoracic Surgeon

 

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Neurofibroma

Located in the Posterior Mediastinum

The BLUE arrows point at the Tumour, that is a Neurofibroma, located in the Posterior Mediastinum.

The White arrows show the left Lung (LUL)

Access: left thoracotomy

Thymoma

 Located in the Anterior Mediastinum

 Large (11 cm)

A large Thymoma (shown by BLUE arrows) is located at the Anterior Mediastinum (just next to her heart) of a 62-yo female patient.

The Τumour is considerably heavy and it does exert all this weight directly on the patient's heart.

The tumour's maximal dimension was measured 11 cm post fixation in formalin.

The tumour was preop causing:

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Myasthenia gravis, confirmed

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Atrial Fibrillation resistant to antiarrhythmic medication and also to electric cardioversion.

 

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