Anterior Mediastinal Mass with Cavitation.

Park, Hong Su; Yun, Seung Baik; Park, Kwang Joo; Kim, Hyung Jung; Ahn, Chul Min

doi:1997.44.5.1194

Tuberc Respir Dis > Volume 44(5); 1997 > Article

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Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 1997;44(5):1194-1197.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4046/trd.1997.44.5.1194 Published online October 1, 1997.

Anterior Mediastinal Mass with Cavitation.

Hong Su Park, Seung Baik Yun, Kwang Joo Park, Hyung Jung Kim, Chul Min Ahn

Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Abstract

Radiological criteria such as smooth, sharply defined interface, obtuse angles between lesion and lung and intimate effect on mediastinal contents were usually used to differentiate mediastinal lesion from parenchymal lung lesion Recently, we experienced a 60-year-old female presenting with anterior mediastinal mass with cavitation. Grossly it was proven to be peripheral lung cancer adjacent to mediastinum and microscopically it was squamous cell carcinoma. The gross pathological findings of surgical specimen were very well correlated with radiological findings. The unique location such as lung periphery and attachment to mediastinum led us to misdiagnosis of anterior mediastinal mass such as germ-cell tumor and neurogenic tumor.

Key Words: Anterior mediastinal mass, Lung cancer