This is a report on the cases of benign mediastinal tumors in the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Chonnam University Hospital during the period from 1961 to 1975.
Age distribution was from 18 to 62 years old with the highest incidence in the 3rd decade, and sex ratio of male to female was 7 : 8
The tumor were classified as follows;
6 cases of teratoma
5 cases of neurogenic tumor
one case of pericardial cyst
one case of cystic hygroma
one case of dermoid cyst
one case of bronchogenic cyst.
The symptomatic patients were 10 cases (66.7%) and asymptomatic patients were 5 cases (33.3%), who were found in cidentally by routine chest n-ray.
The symptoms occurred by compression to the adjacent nerve system in 7 cases, by perforation into the lung with infection in one case of teratoma and by infacton of bronchogenic cyst in one case and of teratoma in one case.
Complications were Pancoast´s syndrome iecluding Horner´s syndrome 2 cases, middle lobe syndrome 2 cases, intercostal neuralgia 1 case and bronchitis 1 case.
All tumore were surgically resectable with good recovery. In all 10 cases of symptomatic patients, their symptoms disappeared dramatically after operation.
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