Anterior Mediastinal Mass

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...

Massive anterior mediastinal mass causing cardiac compression.

Anterior mediastinal mass in a young man.

The case is presented of a patient in whom the diagnosis of Klinefelter's syndrome was made only after a mediastinal teratoma was discovered. Chest physicians should be aware of this association since they are often the first to evaluate patients with mediastinal masses.

Anterior mediastinal mass due to thoracic splenosis.

To cite: Soraru J, Cardaci G. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2014208376 DESCRIPTION An 81-year-old man was investigated for weight loss, fever, deranged liver enzymes and elevated inflammatory markers. CT imaging revealed a lobulated well-defined anterior mediastinal mass (1.7×2.8×3.2 cm) and a further small (1.43×0.59×1.9 cm) subpleural nodule in...

Anterior mediastinal mass and Graves' disease.

Radiological evidence of a mass in the anterior mediastinum may provide a difficult problem in diagnosis. Disorders of the thymus, particularly thymomas, are frequently the cause of such mass lesions. Although modest thymic enlargement occurs in many patients with Graves's disease,' rarely is the enlargement great enough to lead to a clinical diagnostic dilemma.2 We report here two patients wit...