Experts call this area your “mediastinum.” It holds your heart and its large vessels, your trachea or windpipe, your esophagus, your thymus gland, and some of your lymph nodes. This surgical ...

Two infants died without surgery. Variable clinical and radiographic findings of bronchogenic cysts of the mediastinum may obscure diagnosis and delay treatment. Chest films may show severe ...

We compared a new chest radiograph with one that had been taken 3 weeks earlier and found a new widening of the mediastinum (Figure 1). Her cardiac enzyme levels were normal, but her hemoglobin level ...

Mediastinal lymphadenopathy is a condition where the lymph nodes in the mediastinum, the central part of the chest cavity between the lungs, become enlarged. Several conditions can cause lymph ...

Pneumomediastinum is when air is present in the mediastinum. This is the space between the lungs and surrounding the heart. Air may enter from a leakage in a lung, the esophagus, or airways.

Merdeka.com - Tumor mediastinum adalah pertumbuhan yang terbentuk di area dada di antara paru-paru. Area ini, yang disebut mediastinum, dikelilingi oleh tulang dada di depan, tulang belakang di ...

His primary care physician ordered a CT scan (Figure 2) that showed a 5.5-cm oval mass with smooth borders that displaced the upper lobe of the patient’s lung in the anterior mediastinum.

The condition is not bacterial in nature, but stems due to leakage of fungal cell constituents from lymphatic nodes into the mediastinum, resulting in an immunogenic reaction and ebullient ...

Sarcomas of the posterior mediastinum are rare and correspond mostly to neurogenic tumors. We studied 18 cases of liposarcoma presenting in the posterior mediastinum; because of their unusual ...

1 This report describes the rare complication of a mass in the anterior mediastinum associated with infectious mononucleosis. Case Report A 20-year-old man was admitted to the Darnall Army ...

A chest radiograph taken with the patient in a supine position showed a widened mediastinum with loss of the aortic knob contour (Figure 1). Although a frank apical cap or hemothorax was absent, a ...