NOTES and the mediastinum

NOTES and the mediastinum

When natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) was introduced more than 10 years ago, it presented the possibility of less-invasive, initially abdominal procedures through the gut wall without skin incision. As procedures were carried out without sufficient basis of experience and knowledge about possible hazards, the most critical points and possible complications of NOTES proced...

Imaging of the Mediastinum

Mediastinal masses can be benign cysts, neurogenic tumors, germ cell neoplasms, thymomas or lymphomas. The mediastinum is demarcated by the pleural cavities laterally. Superior to the mediastinum, you find the thoracic inlet. The mediastinum is usually divided into three main compartments, anterior, middle and posterior. This anatomical classification of the mediastinum is useful for the radiol...

Imaging of the Mediastinum

Mediastinal masses can be benign cysts, neurogenic tumors, germ cell neoplasms, thymomas or lymphomas. The mediastinum is demarcated by the pleural cavities laterally. Superior to the mediastinum, you find the thoracic inlet. The mediastinum is usually divided into three main compartments, anterior, middle and posterior. This anatomical classification of the mediastinum is useful for the radiol...

Haemangioma of the mediastinum.

Mediastinal masses not infrequently present themselves as problems for diagnosis. Benign vascular tumours of the mediastinum are rare. Adams and Bloch (1944) reported a case in which the tumour was incompletely removed at operation. The patient was alive and well four years later. The subject was reviewed by Seybold, McDonald, Clagett, and Harrington (1949), who collected 14 cases from the lite...

Neoplasms of the Mediastinum