A Watery Mediastinal Mass

Enlarged Right Atrium Falsely Interpreted as a Mediastinal Mass: A Case Report

Right atrial dilation due to left heart disease is a common complication among adults. The present review aimed to describe a case of massively dilated right atrium in a female patient presenting with valvular heart disease and no atrial fibrillation. The results of chest X-ray revealed a large opacity filling the lower right hemithorax, falsely interpreted as a mediastinal mass. During the tra...

[Mediastinal mass].

A calcified vascular mediastinal mass.

We report the incidental finding of a late post-traumatic pseudoaneurysm of the thoracic aorta in a patient being treated for subarachnoid hemorrhage from a motorcycle accident. The diagnosis of calcified vascular mediastinal masses may be suspected from routine chest roentgenograms and confirmed by aortography. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging are helpful when the diagnosis r...

Posterior Mediastinal Mass

A 57-year-old woman presented with epigastric pain and cough for a period of 15 days, as well as a history of significant weight loss of 12 kgs in past 2 months. The patient had no significant past medical history. A chest x-ray was performed (Fig. 1), which prompted further work-up, consisting of a contrast-enhanced CT (Fig. 2) MRI (not shown), and PET-CT (Fig. 3). Frontal chest radiograph don...

Anterior mediastinal mass.

THE image depicts an anterior mediastinal mass in a 4-yr-old who presented with numbness in the left arm. A large soft tissue mass can be seen in the anterior mediastinum. The mass extended into the neck and displaced the great vessels in the mediastinum and major vessels in the left neck. The airway and thyroid were deviated toward the right. The trachea was narrowed slightly at its midportion...