{"title":"Rapidly Moving Vanishing Tumor of the Lung After Open-heart Surgery.","authors":"Hiromi Sato, Jinya Takahashi, Munehisa Bekki, Ryo Shibata, Kodai Shibao, Hideya Sato, Shoichiro Nohara, Akihiro Honda, Naoki Itaya, Hidetoshi Chibana, Yoshihiro Fukumoto","doi":"10.2739/kurumemedj.MS682004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Vanishing tumor of the lung, also known as phantom tumor, is uncommonly observed in congestive heart failure. We report a case of a vanishing tumor that rapidly disappeared and reappeared in just a few minutes due to repositioning in a patient after open-heart surgery.</p>","PeriodicalId":39559,"journal":{"name":"Kurume Medical Journal","volume":"68 2","pages":"141-144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Kurume Medical Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2739/kurumemedj.MS682004","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Medicine","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Vanishing tumor of the lung, also known as phantom tumor, is uncommonly observed in congestive heart failure. We report a case of a vanishing tumor that rapidly disappeared and reappeared in just a few minutes due to repositioning in a patient after open-heart surgery.