The clinical staging of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is of paramount importance. It determines prognosis and therapy, and inaccurate stagingmay result in inappropriate treatment. In particular, clinical staging that misses mediastinal metastases may result in the patient undergoing a futile thoracotomy. Conversely, accurately detecting mediastinal metastases preoperatively would allow con...

In patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), mediastinal lymph node (LN) involvement is the most important prognostic factor and influences therapeutic strategies. Nowadays, several methods of mediastinal staging are available. In 2007, the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) published guidelines for preoperative LN staging for NSCLC [1]. According to these guidelines, invasive...

Ectopic thyroid tissue (ETT) is a rare entity and a challenging differential diagnosis. This is a report of a case of a mediastinal mass that was found to be an ectopic mediastinal thyroid tissue, in a 77-year-old woman who was admitted to our hospital for breast cancer management. The mediastinal mass was identified in the postsurgical computed tomography (CT) scan of the chest and was suspect...

1. department of surgery, isfahan university of medical science (iums), isfahan, iran                                                 corresponding author: seyed abbas tabatabaei, md. email: [email protected] received: 14 nov. 2014 accepted: 07 feb. 2015  iran j cancer prev. 2015; 2:89-93.     abstract background: considering the poor survival rate of patients with esophageal cancers, mai...

Solitary metastasis of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in the mediastinal lymph nodes is rare in patients without lung metastasis. We herein report a case of RCC with solitary mediastinal lymph node metastasis. A mass in the anterior mediastinum was found in the chest computed tomography (CT) scan of an asymptomatic 43-year-old-man. A mass on the right kidney was also revealed in an abdominal CT sca...

Primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma (PMBL) is a subtype of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) that is putatively derived from a thymic B cell. Accounting for up to 10% of cases of DLBCL, this subtype predominantly affects women in the third and fourth decades of life. Its clinical and molecular characteristics are distinct from other subtypes of DLBCL and, in fact, closely resemble those of ...

The present study was designed to determine the extent of lymph node dissection for clinical T1 non-small cell lung cancer without negatively influencing curability. The study included 192 cases with clinical T1 non-small cell lung cancers who underwent lobectomy with mediastinal lymphadenectomy. Among 69 cases with right upper lobe tumors, metastasis was found in subcarinal lymph node in one c...

This study aimed to provide theoretical bases for choosing examination methods onpatients with mediastinal lymphadenectasis. The clinical characteristics of 140 patients with unexplained mediastinal lymphadenectasis who received video-assisted mediastinoscopy (VAM) were reviewed retrospectively. The relationship between various factors and pathological results of mediastinal lymphadenectasis wa...