We present a 27-year-old female patient admitted with an anterior mediastinal mass. She complained of chest discomfort and hemoptysis which began seven months prior. She had given birth five months prior. Thoracic X-ray showed an anterior mediastinal mass. Thorax computed tomography (CT) confirmed a well-defined anterior mediastinal mass with 13 × 12 cm diameter, extending to the right hemithor...

We report on the rare and surgical treatment of a case of primary mediastinal liposarcoma. A 64-year-old male complained of hoarseness for one month and was admitted to our hospital because of an abnormal shadow, which was postulated to be an anterior mediastinal tumor on a chest computed tomography (CT) scan. Horizontal T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed an anterior mediastina...

Primary mediastinal seminoma is an uncommon tumor usually located in the anterior mediastinum. The majority of cases occur in young males. We report here an extremely rare case of a 69-year-old male with primary seminoma in the middle mediastinum. The patient had no complaints, but an abnormal shadow was seen in a routine chest X-ray. We performed a tumorectomy in the middle mediastinum, a thym...

BACKGROUND/AIM Mediastinoscopy is an invasive procedure that is used in the diagnosis of mediastinal diseases and in staging lung cancer. Tumor cell seeding during mediastinoscopy along the mediastinum and the incision line is a very rare complication. This study aimed to test the safety of mediastinoscopy in terms of tumor seeding by cytological evaluation of mediastinal lavage samples taken b...

UNLABELLED We evaluated the value of PET using 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) and 11C-methionine, individually or in combination, to distinguish malignant from benign tumors and to identify or exclude mediastinal metastases. METHODS Seventeen patients with a tumor in the lung or mediastinum were evaluated with 18F-FDG and 11C-methionine PET. For morphological comparison, we used CT, and all fin...

A bronchial carcinoid tumor is a rare pulmonary neuroendocrine tumor. This report describes case where patient experienced multiple episodes of hemoptysis and dyspnea on exertion over the course five months. An initial chest X-ray showed an elevated right hemidiaphragm with atelectasis, follow-up computed tomography (CT) scan was ordered to further assess this finding. The CT revealed occluding...

Plasmacytoma are extramedullary accumulations of plasma cells. Most extramedullary Plasmacytomas are associated with the upper respiratory tract. The mediastinum is rarely involved. We report a rare case of mediastinal plasmacytoma with multiple myeloma. The patient is 66 year old woman presented with bone pains and mediastinal mass on CT scan and MRI. The preliminary diagnosis of occult lung c...

Mediastinal germ cell tumors are rare malignant tumors whose current management strategy involves making a prompt diagnosis and providing an appropriate chemotherapy. However, there is as yet no consensus regarding the optimal management postchemotherapy. We encountered the case of a 23-year-old man who was diagnosed as having a mediastinal nonseminomatous germ cell tumor. We evaluated its resp...

Mediastinal lipoblastoma is a rare mesenchymal tumor of embryonal fat occurring predominantly in the first three years of life. Less than 20 cases have been reported so far in the Western literature. Lipoblastomas constitute less than 1% of all pediatric tumors. The extremites are the most common location for this tumor. We presented a rare 9month-old female infant case that differed from previ...