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Robotic thoracic surgery of the left pleural cupula mediastinal mass

Shiguang Xu, Bo Li, Renquan Ding, Bo Liu, Hao Meng, Tong Wang, Wei Xu, Xingchi Liu, Shumin Wang

Abstract

Medical history: the patient, a 67-year-old women, was admitted due to “thoracic back pain accompanied with chest tightness and shortness of breath for over 5 months”. She suffered from thoracic back pain 5 months ago, which was accompanied with chest tightness and shortness of breath after physical activities. Chest CT displayed the presence of a mediastinal mass. She then visited our hospital for surgical treatment. She complained that she had a previous history of angina pectoris for 2 years, which had not received any formal diagnosis or treatment. She had no previous history of other conditions.

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