A retrospective observational study over surgical management of giant thoracic tumours: horrendous but manageable

The Cardiothoracic Surgeon

Table 2 Preoperative, postoperative diagnosis with follow-up details of cases

Age/sex (years)	Primary location	Pre-operative diagnosis on biopsy	Final histopathological diagnosis after excision	Follow-up duration and complication	Local recurrence	Distant metastasis	Current status
F/12	Mediastinum	Thymoma	Thymolipoma, Masaoka Staging-I	03 years	No	No	Healthy
F/51	Right hemithorax	Solitary fibrous pleural tumour	Solitary fibrous pleural tumour	02 years	No	No	Healthy
F/39	Left hemithorax	Neurofibroma	Benign nerve sheath solitary tumour: Neurofibroma	4.5 years	No	No	Healthy
F/26	Mediastinum	Germ cell tumour	Non-seminatous germ cell tumour—benign mature teratoma	3.5 years	No	No	Healthy
M/23	Mediastinum	Germ cell tumour	Non-seminatous germ cell tumour—mature cystic teratoma	03 years	No	No	Healthy
M/42	Mediastinum	Thymoma	Thymoma, Masaoka Staging-I, WHO Classification-A	03 years	No	No	Healthy
M/35	Mediastinum	Thymoma	Thymoma, Masaoka Staging-I, WHO Classification-A	02 years	No	No	Healthy
M/34	Right hemithorax	Neurofibroma	Solitary neurofibroma	1 year	No	No	Healthy
M/52	Mediastinum	Thymoma	Thymoma Masaoka Staging-IIA WHO Classification-B-1	1.5 years, Developed Stroke after 01 year of surgery	No	No	Living: but having left-sided hemiparesis and now under neurology treatment
M/5	Right hemithorax	Pleuro-pulmoblastoma	Pleuro-pulmoblastoma- type II	03 months	In right hemithorax 03 months	No	Transferred to Medical Oncology
F/35	Left hemithorax	Solitary fibrous pleural tumour	Solitary fibrous pleural tumour	09 months	No	No	Healthy