Lymphangiohemangiomas of the mediastinum are exceedingly rare and few cases have been published in the English literature. This report may be the only reported case in which lymphangiohemangiomas were found bilaterally. We report a case of a 7-year-old boy with an incidental finding of an abnormal mediastinal shadow on a chest X-ray. The chest CT showed a large mass in the left superior mediast...

Introduction: Diagnosis of tuberculosis under the National Tuberculosis Control Program (NTCP) is based on microscopic examination of sputum. The main objective of this study was to assess the perception of physicians and patients regarding the importance of chest X-ray in diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis with a view to suggest corrective measures. Materials & Methods: One hundred and eight...

Neurilemmoma (NL), also termed schwannoma, presents as a well-circumscribed and encapsulated mass in the human body and is almost always solitary. CT scan of a patient with NL shows a round, ovoid, or lobulated well-demarcated solid mass of soft tissue density. Primary intrathoracic neurogenic tumors location varies. However, the development of such tumors is by far more common in the costovert...

FIGURE 1. Posteroanterior chest roentgenogram illtmstrating wellcircumscribed homogeneous right tmpper lobe cystic lesion. deferred while a second opinion was obtained. The patient felt well and specifically denied fever, chills, chest pain, sputum production, hemoptysis, o)r previous episodes of pneumonia. She had no known exposure to tuberculosis and no prior history of surgery. She was recei...

In 2013, an estimated 9,290 cases of Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) were diagnosed in the United States, and 1,180 patients died from their disease. The median age at diagnosis is 38 years, although there is a bimodal age distribution with peaks around ages 20 and 65.[1] Mediastinal involvement is present in 60% of patients at diagnosis, and bulky mediastinal disease is seen in 20% to 25% of clinical st...

A 57-year-old man with history of gastroesophageal reflux disease and Barrett’s esophagus, for which he was taking pantoprazole, complained of persistent post-prandial cough. Exam was unremarkable. A chest x-ray showed a 4 x 5 x 5-cm retrocardiac ovoid smoothly marginated soft tissue opacity. A computed tomography (CT) scan of the chest with contrast showed a hiatal hernia with a rounded mass c...

A 59-year-old builder presented to the accident and emergency department with a 4-week history of intermittent central chest pain. He was a lifelong non-smoker, had no asbestos or tuberculosis exposures, and had no cardiac risk factors. The patient’s pain settled with simple analgesia. Chest x ray showed a widening of the right paratracheal stripe consistent with right paratracheal lymphadenopa...

Gregg, a 64-year-old man, has a 40-pack-year smoking history. He presents with a 2-month history of cough and a recent episode of hemoptysis. A chest x-ray film reveals a right lung mass, and computed tomography (CT) of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis confirms a right middle lobe mass with no evidence of metastatic disease. Lung biopsy confirms non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and results of f...

We report an unusual case of 9.5-cm-sized embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma arose from a mediastinal mature teratoma in a 46-yr-old man. A man presented with chest trauma as a result of an accident at 10 September 2011. On chest X-ray, an anterior mediastinal mass was detected. To obtain further information, chest computed tomography (CT) with contrast enhancement was performed, revealing an anterior ...

A previously healthy, non-smoking, 72-year-old woman was referred to our hospital with abnormal chest X-ray and chest discomfort. A 3.5-cm, well-defined, right paratracheal mass was revealed on non-contrast chest computed tomography (CT), which was suspected to be an azygous vein aneurysm, lymph adenopathy or neurogenic tumor. Whole-body integrated positron emission tomography/magnetic resonanc...