Sentences with phrase «mediastinal masses»

While most cranial mediastinal masses are usually thymoma or lymphosarcoma, other causes may include ectopic thyroid tissue, branchial cyst, chemodectoma, or thoracic wall tumor.

Possible causes of chylothorax include anterior mediastinal masses (mediastinal lymphosarcoma, thymoma), heart disease (cardiomyopathy, heartworm disease, congenital cardiac diseases, etc.), fungal granulomas, congenital abnormalities of the thoracic duct, and diffuse lymphatic abnormalities.

Precaval syndrome (swelling of the head, neck, and / or thoracic limbs) is possible if the mediastinal mass causes compression of or invades the cranial vena cava.

Thoracic radiographs usually show a cranial mediastinal mass.

Clinical signs are variable and are related to a space - occupying cranial mediastinal mass and / or manifestations of the paraneoplastic syndrome.

Fluid within the cranial mediastinum (transudate, exudate, hemorrhage) can occasionally mimic a mediastinal mass.