Management Of Mediastinal Disease Research Articles

Mediastinal tumours and pseudo-tumours: a comprehensive review with emphasis on multidisciplinary approach

The diagnosis of a mediastinal mass may be challenging for clinicians, since lesions arising within the mediastinum include a variety of disease entities, frequently requiring a multidisciplinary approach. Age and sex represent important information, which need to be integrated with imaging and laboratory findings. In addition, the location of the mediastinal lesion is fundamental; indeed, we propose to illustrate mediastinal diseases based on the compartment of origin. We consider that this structured approach may serve as hint to the diagnostic modalities and management of mediastinal diseases. In this review, we present primary mediastinal tumours in the evolving context of new diagnostic and therapeutic tools, with recently described entities, based on our own experience with >900 cases encountered in the past 10 years.

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Since the Japanese Society of Broncho-esophagology was founded in 1950, there have been only a few reports on mediastinal disease. In this article, I would like to review the following issues: the development of the diagnostic modalities and management of mediastinal disease, mediastinal emphysema, anterior mediastinal tracheostomy and video assisted thoracoscopic surgery on mediastinal tumors.