Cinical Evaluation of Transesophageal Echocardiography Applied to Diagnose the Mediastinal Teratoma / 中国医师杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To probe the clinical value of transesophageal echocardiography(TEE) in diagnoses of mediastinal teratoma.Method Differential diagnosis of benign or malignant tumor was carried out on the bases of echocharacteristics,size,capsule lesion,boundary,growing speed,invasion and compression of tumor etc with TEE in twenty cases of mediastinal teratoma.Results The sensitivity,specificity and accuracy of the TEE diagnosis for mediastinal teratoma were 70%,94%,90% respectively.Conclusion TEE has an important value for diagnosis of mediastinal teratoma.