@article{ref1,
title="Traumatic rupture of a posterior mediastinal teratoma following motor-vehicle accident",
journal="Case reports in surgery",
year="2016",
author="Bell, Christopher and Domingo, Fernando and Miller, Ashley D. and Smith, Jeremiah S. and Headrick, James R.",
volume="2016",
number="",
pages="e7172062-e7172062",
abstract="We report a case of a posterior mediastinal mature cystic teratoma with rupture secondary to blunt chest trauma in a 20-year-old male involved in a motor-vehicle accident. Initial treatment was guided by Advanced Trauma Life Support and a tube thoracostomy was performed for presumed hemothorax. The heterogeneous collection within the thoracic cavity was discovered to be the result of a ruptured cystic mass. Pathologic findings confirmed the mass consistent with a mature cystic teratoma. As mediastinal teratomas are most commonly described arising from the anterior mediastinum, the posterior location of the teratoma described in this report is exceedingly rare.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2090-6900",
doi="10.1155/2016/7172062",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7172062"
}