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Acute mediastinitis, mediastinal granuloma, and chronic fibrosing mediastinitis: A review
Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology, 2022Acute mediastinitis is a rare infection that carries high morbidity and mortality. They are complications seen most often with deep sternal wound infections from surgeries with median sternotomies, oropharyngeal and odontogenic infections and esophageal perforations. These conditions should be promptly recognized and treated. Mediastinal granulomas are
Julie Lin, Carlos A. Jimenez
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Mediastinal Granuloma and Fibrosing Mediastinitis
Chest, 1979Thirty-one patients with mediastinal granuloma and fibrosing mediastinitis were seen at the Mayo Clinic from 1975 through 1977. Review of this series reveals that surgery is necessary to establish a diagnosis if the lesions are noncalcified and indeterminate.
Barry J. Weled, Jerome F. Beekman
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Archivos de Bronconeumología, 2011
Mediastinitis is defined as acute or chronic inflammation of the mediastinal structures and generally has a low incidence. The most frequent acute cause is sternotomy following cardiac revascularization surgery with both internal mammary arteries, with an incidence of 0.4% to 5% and a mortality of 16.5% to 47%.
Primitivo, Martínez Vallina +3 more
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Mediastinitis is defined as acute or chronic inflammation of the mediastinal structures and generally has a low incidence. The most frequent acute cause is sternotomy following cardiac revascularization surgery with both internal mammary arteries, with an incidence of 0.4% to 5% and a mortality of 16.5% to 47%.
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Mediastinal Granuloma and Mediastinal Fibrosis
Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2002Mediastinal granuloma/mediastinal fibrosis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the mediastinum. Mediastinal granuloma is the abnormal enlargment of mediastinal lymph nodes by granulomatous inflammation, is usually asyptomatic or minimally symptomatic, and is often detected on chest radiographs taken for other reasons. In contrast, mediastinal fibrosis
James M. Parish, Edward C. Rosenow
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Current Opinion in Oncology, 1990
Of the many types of tumors located in the mediastinal compartments, most are metastatic. The most common adult tumor in the anterior compartment is thymoma. A number of important cytogenetic, immunohistochemical, and molecular analytical observations have been reported over the past year regarding this tumor.
C R, Thomas, P, Bonomi
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Of the many types of tumors located in the mediastinal compartments, most are metastatic. The most common adult tumor in the anterior compartment is thymoma. A number of important cytogenetic, immunohistochemical, and molecular analytical observations have been reported over the past year regarding this tumor.
C R, Thomas, P, Bonomi
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Microbiology of Mediastinitis [PDF]
Archives of Internal Medicine, 1996 To study the microbiologic and clinical characteristics of patients with mediastinitis.Retrospective review of clinical and laboratory data of 17 patients treated between 1980 and 1987.Aerobic or facultative bacteria only were present in three patients (18%), anaerobic bacteria only in seven (41%), and mixed aerobic-anaerobic flora in seven (41%).
Itzhak Brook, Edith H. Frazier
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Mediastinal teratoma complicated with acute mediastinitis
General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2010We report a case of a mediastinal teratoma associated with acute mediastinitis that required an emergency operation. These tumors cause a variety of complications, but reports of acute mediastinitis are rare. A 24-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital for complaints of chest pain and fever and was subsequently diagnosed as having an anterior ...
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