teratoma of the thymus

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who fell on to her right shoulderCXR AP+lateral shows a large anterior mediastinal mass. Axial CT with contrast of the chest shows a heterogenous mass containing low density fat and high density calcium.The diagnosis was teratoma of the thymus.

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with respiratory distress and an anterior mediastinal mass. Specimen radiograph shows densely calcified rectangular structures in the resected thymic mass which turned out to be teeth.The diagnosis was thymic teratoma.

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different imaging modalities in the evaluation of normal and diseased thymus. MRI chest in a 45-year-old female patient shows a rather well-defined superior anterior mediastinal lobulated soft tissue lesion eliciting heterogenous low T1 (a) and mixed signal in T2WI signals (b), with areas of restricted diffusion in out-of-phase image (d) compared to in-phase (b, c) image. It elicits diffusion restriction (e, f) with ADC value = 0.8. Histopathological confirmation revealed terato-dermoid tumor