A case of mediastinal cyst extirpated by mediastinoscopy

Isolated Mediastinal Adenopathy: The Case for Mediastinoscopy

BACKGROUND We report our experience with mediastinoscopy at Auckland city hospital, a tertiary referral centre. We wished to examine correlations between clinical diagnosis and that made by histological sampling of enlarged mediastinal nodes particularly in patients with isolated mediastinal adenopathy. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed clinical records of all patients who underwent mediast...

Mediastinal Thymic Cyst: A Rare Case Report

Multiple mediastinal hydatic cyst: a case report.

Hydatid disease is a parasitic infection that is remains endemic in many countries, particularly the Middle East and Central Asia. Mediastinal hydatidosis is very rare (less than 0.1% of all hydatid disease cases) that have been only anecdotally in the literature. To the best of our knowledge only one case of multiple mediastineal hydatid cysts has been reported previously. We report the second...

Mediastinal hydatid cyst: a case report

INTRODUCTION Mediastinal localization of hydatidosis is very rare even in endemic areas. The diagnosis is based on typical clinical and radiological criteria. CASE PRESENTATION We report a case of a mediastinal location of hydatidosis in a 60-year-old Arab man admitted for chest pain. The chest radiograph showed a rounded and homogeneous opacity. Computed tomography showed a right mediastinal...

Early detection of mediastinal spread of pulmonary carcinoma by mediastinoscopy.

To the great disappointment of all concerned, too many operations performed for pulmonary carcinoma still prove to be exploratory thoracotomies or non-curative resections, in spite of careful preoperative investigations. A follow-up study of 168 patients operated upon for pulmonary carcinoma clearly shows that such non-curative procedures yield very disappointing results. To reduce this number ...