Thoracoscopic Surgery for Glomus Tumor: An Uncommon Mediastinal Neoplasm and Iatrogenic Tracheal Rupture

Abstract EN

Mediastinal glomus tumors are rarely recognized, and only seven cases have been reported in the literature.

Here, we describe a rare mediastinal glomus tumor and review the characteristics of this rare clinical case.

The patient was a 50-year-old female who presented with coughing for 3 months.

Her chest computed tomography scan demonstrated a localized tumor in the posterior superior mediastinum.

Intraoperatively, we found a longitudinal rupture of the membranous trachea above the carina.

We completely resected the tumor and repaired the tracheal rupture under a thoracoscopy using a pedicled muscle flap.

The tissue was diagnosed as a mediastinal glomus tumor according to its histological and immunophenotypic characteristics.