Vascular tumors of the mediastinum

Vm104 Tumors of the Pleura and Mediastinum

Primary mediastinal tumors. Part 1: tumors of the anterior mediastinum.

Primary anterior mediastinal neoplasms comprise a diverse group of tumors and account for 50% of all mediastinal masses. Thymomas are most common and can be locally invasive and associated with parathymic syndromes. Thymic carcinomas and thymic carcinoids are rare malignancies with a propensity for local invasion and distant metastases. Thymolipomas are benign thymic tumors. The mediastinal ger...

Neoplasms of vascular origin in the mediastinum.

INCIDENCE Seybold, McDonald, Clagett, and Harrington (1949) made the f i s t collective review of these tumours, in which they mainly discussed their pathology. They could find only 14 cases, to which they added 3 more cases from the Mayo Clinic. The real incidence of these neoplasms in relation to other mediastinal masses is very difficult to estimate. However, the widening scope of thoracic s...

Simultaneous excision of bilateral neurogenic tumors of the mediastinum.

CHEST,VOL.62, NO. 3, SEPTEMBER, 1972 lower lobe pulmonary vein into the left atrium, the catheter became trapped and looped at the level of the atrial septal defect; injection of contrast material revealed its tip to be floating free]y in the left atrium (Fig 1). Attempts at extrication involved the use of guide wires in ax,effort to straighten the catheter, pressure injections of saline soluti...

Multiple Ewing Sarcoma/Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors in the Mediastinum

Ewing sarcoma/primitive neuroectodermal tumors (ES/PNET) are high-grade malignant neoplasms. These malignancies present very rare tumors of thoracopulmonary area and even rarer in the mediastinum. In our knowledge, ES/PNET presented with multiple mediastinal masses has not been reported previously. We experienced a case of a 42-year-old man presented with gradual onset of left-side pleuritic ch...