Endoscopic ultrasound in the diagnosis of mediastinal diseases [PDF]
Open Medicine, 2015 EUS is a useful tool for diagnosis of mediastinal diseases. EUS-FNA plays an important role in staging of lung cancer and in tissue acquisition in patients with mediastinal masses.
Wang Zhiguo, Jiang Chunmeng
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Age‐ and gender‐specific disease distribution and the diagnostic accuracy of CT for resected anterior mediastinal lesions [PDF]
Thoracic Cancer, 2019 Background Anterior mediastinal lesions account for approximately half of all mediastinal masses and computed tomography (CT) is known to exhibit limited differentiating performance.
Ju Gang Nam +5 more
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Mediastinal mass and hydatid disease [PDF]
QJM, 2013 ### Learning Point for Clinicians This case serves to highlight that cardiac and mediastinal hydatid disease can occur without overt liver or lung involvement, and that echinococcosis of the mediastinum may mimic many other diseases. A 50-year-old female presented with a non-productive cough. She was a non-smoker and reported no other symptoms.
M S, Thakkar +3 more
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Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration combined with either endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration or endoscopic ultrasound using the EBUS scope-guided fine-needle aspiration for diagnosing and staging mediastinal diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
Clinics, 2020 The present systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the available evidence base on endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) combined with either endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (EUS ...
Yanhua Shen, Shanyu Qin, Haixing Jiang
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Isolated Mediastinal and Hilar Lymphadenopathy as a Manifestation of IgG4‐Related Disease Diagnosed by EBUS‐Guided Transbronchial Mediastinal Cryobiopsy [PDF]
Respirology Case ReportsImmunoglobulin G4‐related disease (IgG4‐RD) is a fibroinflammatory condition that can involve multiple organs, including mediastinal lesions. Transbronchial mediastinal cryobiopsy has recently emerged as a novel sampling technique that improves ...
Wen Zhang +7 more
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Mediastinal irradiation and valvular heart disease [PDF]
Cardio-Oncology, 2022 AbstractAnticancer therapy has the potential to cause unwanted cardiovascular side effects. Utilization of radiation therapy to treat tumors near the heart can result in radiation-induced valvular heart disease among other cardiovascular pathologies. The aim of this review is to describe the epidemiology, pathophysiology, risk prediction, non-invasive ...
Shivaraj Patil +3 more
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PulmonologyBackground Clinical guidelines recommend endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) as the initial diagnostic tool for lung cancer staging.
Yong-Jia Qi +16 more
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Mediastinal neoplasms in patients with Graves disease: a possible link between sustained hyperthyroidism and thymic neoplasia? [PDF]
Thyroid Research, 2012 Background Anterior mediastinal masses are a rare but well documented finding in Graves disease. The vast majority of these lesions represents benign thymic hypertrophy and regress after treatment of the hyperthyroidism. A small percentage of these cases
Boyd Jonathan D, Juskevicius Ridas
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대한영상의학회지, 2016 Purpose To evaluate the presence, size and location of enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes (LNs) in patients with valvular heart disease (VHD) using computed tomography scans in correlation with ejection fraction (EF).
Hye Ju Park +4 more
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Turkish Journal of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, 2023 Mediastinal venolymphatic malformations (VLM) are rare tumours, with very few reported cases in the literature. Arising often from the anterior mediastinum, VLM manifests symptoms based on invaded surrounding structures.
Prateek Arora +4 more
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