Transcervical, paratracheal resection of a posterior mediastinal mass

Transcervical resection of an ectopic mediastinal parathyroid adenoma.

An 81-year-old man was incidentally found to have a posterior mediastinal lesion measuring 25 19 mm behind the trachea and lateral to the esophagus on computed tomography of the chest (Fig 1A, arrow). Parathyroid scintigraphy with Tc-MIBI (technetium with the ligand methoxyisobutylisonitrile) showed persistent focal activity in the posterior mediastinum along the left lateral aspect of the esop...

Posterior Mediastinal Mass

A 57-year-old woman presented with epigastric pain and cough for a period of 15 days, as well as a history of significant weight loss of 12 kgs in past 2 months. The patient had no significant past medical history. A chest x-ray was performed (Fig. 1), which prompted further work-up, consisting of a contrast-enhanced CT (Fig. 2) MRI (not shown), and PET-CT (Fig. 3). Frontal chest radiograph don...

A posterior mediastinal mass diagnosed by echocardiogram.

Robot-Assisted Thoracoscopic Resection of a Posterior Mediastinal Mullerian Cyst

First described in 2005, the Mullerian derived cyst in the mediastinum is a rare finding with few subsequent reports. We report a case of Mullerian cyst occurring in the mediastinum of a 49-year-old female that was resected by robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. To our knowledge, this is the first report of robot-assisted resection of Hattori's cyst. Histopathologic analysis revealed ciliated...

Video assisted thoracoscopic resection of a posterior mediastinal Castleman's tumor

Castleman's disease (CD) or angiofollicular lymph node hyperplasia is a rare spectrum of lymphoproliferative disorders. CD tumors are commonly localized in the mediastinum and are usually asymptomatic. The mainstay of treatment is surgical resection and has typically been performed using open thoracotomy. Few reports in the literature describe video assisted thoracoscopic resection of these tum...