The mediastinum--Is it wide? [PDF]
Emergency Medicine Journal, 2001 To determine if the 8 cm upper limit for mediastinal width applies in the trauma setting of today. To define the upper limit of normal mediastinal width for supine chest films.A retrospective review of chest computed tomography scans was conducted to determine the width and position of the mediastinum within the supine chest. Radiographs were performed
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Very rare mediastinal location of Kaposiform haemangioendothelioma: A case report and a brief review of the previously published cases [PDF]
Scripta Medica, 2020 Kaposiform haemangioendothelioma (KHE) is a rare, locally invasive vascular tumour that is commonly associated with the Kasabach-Merritt phenomenon (KMP).
Đuričić Slaviša M. +3 more
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Intraoperative ultrasound: “Alternative eye” in lymph nodal dissection in non‐small cell lung cancer
Thoracic Cancer, 2022 Introduction Staging of the mediastinum lymph nodes involvement in patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is an important prognostic factor determining the most appropriate multimodality treatment plan.
Gaetana Messina +18 more
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Primary mediastinal atypical meningioma: Report of a case and literature review
World Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2012 Meningiomas are common neoplasms arising from the central nervous system meninges. On the other hand, primary ectopic meningiomas are extremely rare and usually limited to the head and neck region or to the paravertebral soft tissues. Their occurrence in
Mogi Akira +4 more
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, 2014 Automated Lymph Node (LN) detection is an important clinical diagnostic task but very challenging due to the low contrast of surrounding structures in Computed Tomography (CT) and to their varying sizes, poses, shapes and sparsely distributed locations ...
Cherry, Kevin M. +8 more
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Unraveling the role of ectopic thymic tissue in patients undergoing thymectomy for myasthenia gravis [PDF]
, 2019 Extended thymectomy has been considered the goal of surgery for myasthenia gravis (MG) mainly due to the existence of ectopic thymic tissue. Recently, ectopic thymic tissue has attracted increasing attention in patients with MG following thymectomy ...
Bauer, Gero +9 more
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Surgery of benign neurogenic tumors in adults: single institution experience
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2014 The objective of this work is to review retrospectively our experience with 17 patients presenting with benign neurogenic tumors, managed in the department of thoracic surgery, Mohamed V Military Academic Hospital, Rabat, Morocco.
Fayéal El Oueriachi +4 more
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Case report: Imaging findings of true thymic hyperplasia at 18F-FDG PET/CT in an infant
Frontiers in Oncology, 2023 True thymic hyperplasia (TTH) in children is rare and difficult to distinguish from other thymic tumors such as thymoma and thymic carcinoma. A 3‐year‐old girl underwent an 18F‐fluorodeoxyglucose (18F‐FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/computed ...
Jiazhong Ren, Zheng Fu, Yaqing Zhao
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Detection of Locations of Pancreatic Pseudocysts using Computed Tomography: A Retrospective Study
International Journal of Anatomy Radiology and Surgery, 2023 Introduction: The most common cystic lesion of the pancreas are pseudocysts of the pancreas. They are frequently observed in the peripancreatic regions, however, they may appear elsewhere.
Vanessa Fernandes, Anston Vernon Braggs
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A Rare Giant Pleural Thymoma in Posterior Mediastinum. [PDF]
, 2012 Thymoma is an epithelial neoplasm of the thymus, which commonly lies in the anterior mediastinum. Unusually, thymomas can also be found in other locations. Surgical excision, when feasible, appears to provide good results. We encountered a rare case of a
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