ABSTRACT
Anterior mediastinal paraganglioma is a rare neoplasm and its pathogenesis has not yet been fully understood. The treatment of choice is complete surgical resection, however, its hypervascular nature and proximity to the great vessels makes resection challenging. Operations for paraganglioma have been referred to as a surgical challenge. Moreover, definitive preoperative diagnoses of mediastinal paraganglioma are rarely made, which has made it difficult for thoracic surgeons to prepare for such a challenge preoperatively. We report a case of anterior mediastinal paraganglioma, which was resected successfully under cardiopulmonary bypass, followed by arterioplasty of the pulmonary main trunk.
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Angioplasty , Mediastinal Neoplasms/surgery , Paraganglioma/surgery , Pulmonary Artery/surgery , Cardiopulmonary Bypass , Humans , Male , Mediastinal Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging , Middle Aged , Paraganglioma/diagnostic imaging , Tomography, X-Ray ComputedABSTRACT
Yeast translation requires a unique elongation factor, EF-3. However, information about EF-3 genes has been limited to only a few yeast species. Here, we developed a PCR-based system to detect the EF-3 genes specifically, and identified EF-3 gene fragments from various yeast species in which EF-3 genes have not yet been found.
