ABSTRACT

Mediastinal tumors represent a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge for medical team. Depending on the tumor location and patient age group we can have an idea about diagnostic possibilities; sometimes this is not feasible and a surgical approach becomes necessary both as diagnostic and therapeutic. We present the case of a patient with a highly vascular mediastinal tumor that was resected by a thoracoscopic approach, final histopathological report was a glomangioma, a rare tumor derived from myoepithelial cells.

KEYWORDS

Mediastinal neoplasm, glomangioma, surgery, VATS.

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