This report demonstrates the novel surgical feasibility of utilizing main pulmonary artery transection to resect a complex middle mediastinal paraganglioma.
Extends technical options for challenging mediastinal tumors; leaves open the need for safety validation in larger series.
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.
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