Large mediastinal masses increase the risks associated with general anesthesia. The most feared complication is airway collapse, which precludes ventilation despite intubation. There is limited ...

Masses in the posterior portion of the mediastinum are genearlly neurogenic in origin, and in adults tend to be of neural sheath origin, including neurilemomas and neurofibromas. Menu SECTIONS Home ...

Patients are usually young and present with large mediastinal masses. There is no standard treatment, but the inadequacy of immunochemotherapy alone has resulted in routine consolidation with ...

accounting for less than 0.3% of mediastinal masses," according to research published in the journal Medicine (Baltimore), available in the National Library of Medicine. According StatPearls ...

Evidence-based recommendations on endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration for mediastinal masses. This involves inserting a thin tube through the mouth into the lungs to take ...

CEUS can confirm the presence of a cardiac or mediastinal mass and provide information on perfusion, which is used to complement TTE with improved detection of benign or malignant masses.

Sarcomas of the posterior mediastinum are rare and correspond mostly to neurogenic tumors. We studied 18 cases of liposarcoma presenting in the posterior mediastinum; because of their unusual ...

The department now uses 3D-modeling for pediatric patients needing thoracic surgery, patients with difficult airways, or patients with lung or mediastinal masses. To assess the potential benefits ...

To evaluate children and adolescents with primary mediastinal teratoma and malignant germ cell tumors (GCTs). PATIENTS AND METHODS: Forty-seven patients from the German nontesticular GCT studies were ...

The length of the clinical target volume (CTV) was defined by the length of the mediastinal disease before immunochemotherapy, whereas the width of the CTV corresponded to the width of the residual ...

Current evidence on the safety and efficacy of endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS–TBNA) for mediastinal masses appears adequate to support the use of this procedure ...