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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, C F N, Koegelenberg, J, Bezuidenhout, E M, Irusen   +3 more
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Diagnostic role of ultra sound and computed tomography guided fine-needle aspiration cytology and Tru-cut biopsy experienced in 50 adult patients of mediastinal diseases

The Journal of Association of Chest Physicians, 2015
Context: Etiology and clinical spectrum of mediastinal diseases are very wide. Clinico-radiological pattern of mediastinal diseases depends on the size, location and etiology.
Dibyendu Saha, Jaydip Deb
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A case of Rosai-Dorfman’s disease as isolated mediastinal lymphadenopathy: a diagnostic challenge

The Egyptian Journal of Bronchology, 2022
Background Mediastinal lymphadenopathy is seen in a variety of diseases, like tuberculosis, sarcoidosis, and metastasis. The diagnosis can be confirmed by tissue sampling with endobronchial ultrasound and transbronchial needle aspirate.
Mahavir Modi, Kaumudi Devi
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The utility of endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration in mediastinal or hilar lymph node evaluation in extrathoracic malignancy: Benign or malignant?

Annals of Thoracic Medicine, 2012
Objective: Newly arising enlarged or hypermetabolic mediastinal/hilar lymph nodes (LNs) in patients with previously diagnosed extrathoracic malignancies raise suspicion of metastasis.
Elif T Parmaksiz, Benan Caglayan, Banu Salepci, Sevda S Comert, Nesrin Kiral, Ali Fidan, Gulsen Sarac   +6 more
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Primary mediastinal Castleman's disease

Rare Tumors, 2010
Castleman's disease is a rare entity with an unknown etiology which was first described by Castleman in 1954. It is a lymphoproliferative disorder histologically classified into three types; hyaline-vascular, plasma cell type and mixed type. It might be localized or multicentric and usually involves the mediastinum.
Hanan Bousbait, Yasser M. Aljehani, Mohamed A. Regal   +2 more
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Optimizing the endoscopic diagnosis of mediastinal lymphadenopathy: a glimpse on cryobiopsy

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2022
Etiological diagnosis of mediastinal lymphadenopathy represents a daily challenge. Endosonography (transesophageal and transbronchial ultrasound-guided needle aspiration) is the recommended technique in the first diagnostic work-up and in the mediastinal
Michele Mondoni, Giovanni Sotgiu
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Mediastinal Schistosomiasis in a Patient with HIV and Leprosy: A Case Report [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease commonly affecting the urinary and gastrointestinal systems, caused by trematode worms of the genus Schistosoma.
Diksha Sabharwal, Asmita Samal, Kalyan Kumar Reddy, Sonali Agarwal   +3 more
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Mediastinal debulking for a T-cell leukaemia/lymphoma presenting with cardiac tamponade

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2019
Anterior mediastinal masses are relatively uncommon and include a wide variety of lesions. Lymphomas account for 25% of anterior mediastinal masses. Lymphomas and other haematological malignancies are associated with pericardial effusion.
Sotirios D. Moraitis, Apostolos C. Agrafiotis, Leonidas Marinos, Ioannis Panagiotou, Timotheos Sakellaridis, Christos Tsakalakis, Elias Poulakidas   +6 more
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Autoimmune hemolytic anemia due to mediastinal teratoma: A case report and review article

Clinical Case Reports, 2023
Key Clinical Massage Autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) is a rare disease that is divided into primary and secondary types. In patients with AIHA we should consider mediastinal tumors as a serious cause.
Maryam Ghazizadeh, Mohammad Moini, Matin Ghazizadeh   +2 more
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Transbronchial Mediastinal Cryobiopsy Diagnostic Yield and Perioperative Patient Management: A Single Tertiary Center Experience

Thoracic Research and Practice
OBJECTIVE: Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is widely used to diagnose mediastinal lesions; however, small cytology samples from EBUS-TBNA may be inadequate in cases of benign lung diseases, hematologic ...
Nadia Corcione, Alfonso Pecoraro, Andrea Fidecicchi, Severo Campione, Lina Zuccatosta, Giuseppe Failla   +5 more
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