Posterior mediastinal mass: Do we need to worry much?
Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia, 2013 Anesthetic management of mediastinal masses is challenging. There is abundant literature available on anesthesia management of anterior mediastinal mass. Anesthetic management of posterior mediastinal mass lesions normally have uneventful course.
Parin Lalwani +4 more
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Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 2016 We report a case of a mediastinal mass indenting the left lateral tracheal wall of a 35-year-old male who presented with weight loss, cough and breathlessness. Flow volume loop and thyroid function tests were normal and thyroid peroxidase antibodies were negative.
Hardy, J +3 more
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Multi drug resistant tuberculosis presenting as anterior mediastinal mass
The Journal of Association of Chest Physicians, 2016 Enlargement of the mediastinal lymphatic glands is a common presentation of intrathoracic tuberculosis (TB) in children. However, usually, the mediastinal TB nodes enlarge to 2.8 ± 1.0 cm.
Parmarth Chandane, Ira Shah
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Histoplasmosis presenting as a mediastinal mass
Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, 2018 Pulmonary histoplasmosis is caused by infection with Histoplasma capsulatum, resulting in a variety of clinical manifestations. We describe a case of an asymptomatic mediastinal mass and calcified pulmonary nodules discovered in immunocompetent child ...
Elise D. Martin +3 more
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Posterior mediastinal mass: an unusual presentation of pediatric tuberculosis [PDF]
The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 2014 Mediastinal mass is a rare presentation of tuberculosis in children. The sources of posterior mediastinal mass are usually neurogenic tumors, infections or vascular lesions.
Farah Sabouni +4 more
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Challenges and pitfalls in the perioperative management of mediastinal mass syndrome: an up-to-date review [PDF]
Polish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryThe perioperative management of patients undergoing mediastinal mass operations presents a persistent challenge across multiple clinical specialties.
Vasileios Leivaditis +14 more
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Profile and Factors Associated with Mortality in Mediastinal Mass During Hospitalization at Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Jakarta [PDF]
Acta Medica Indonesiana, 2016 Aim: to obtain characteristics, variations of the type of mass, diagnostic modalities, and mortality factors during hospitalization in patients with mediastinal mass at our institute during a 10-year period.
Gurmeet Singh +4 more
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A Rare Case of Mediastinal Mass: Thymoma and Thymic Tumor [PDF]
, 2023 Thymomas and thymic carcinomas are rare mediastinal neoplasms arising from thymic epithelial cells, and the presence of synchronous or metachronous primary thymic neoplasms in a single patient is an extremely rare event.
Dias, Rita R +9 more
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Ominous Mediastinal Mass Revealing Ectopic Thyroid. [PDF]
Case Rep PatholIntroduction: This report describes an asymptomatic 63-year-old female with a right paratracheal mass compressing and displacing the trachea to the left.
Summers C, Morey G, Ferra S.
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Diagnostic accuracy of mediastinal width measurement on posteroanterior and anteroposterior chest radiographs in the depiction of acute nontraumatic thoracic aortic dissection [PDF]
, 2012 We aimed to explore the diagnostic accuracy of various mediastinal measurements in determining acute nontraumatic thoracic aortic dissection with respect to posteroanterior (PA) and anteroposterior (AP) chest radiographs, which had received little ...
Wan Chi Chan +7 more
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