Mediastinal tumor

Suggested Alternatives for Differential Diagnosis Abdominal aneurysm, aortic dissection, pleural effusion, subarachnoid hemorrhage, superior vena cava syndrome, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, mediastinitis, fulminate mediastinal tumors pneumonia, gastroenteritis, meningitis, ecthyma, rat bite fever, spider bite, leprosy, plague, tularemia, coccidioidomycosis, diphtheria, glanders, histoplasmosis, psittacosis, typhoid fever, and rickettsial pox. 

Geissler W, Pumberger W, Wurnig P, Stnhr O. BCG osteomyelitis as a rare cause of mediastinal tumor in a one-year-old child. Eur J Pediatr Surg 1992 2(2) 118-21. 

Malignant Spindle Cell Mediastinal Tumors (Tables 11.7, 11.8 ... 

Wick MR, Simpson RW, Niehans GA, et al. Anterior mediastinal tumors A clinicopathologic study of 100 cases, with emphasis on immunohistochemical analysis. Prog Surg Pathol. 1990 11 79-119. 

Marchevsky AM. Mediastinal tumors of peripheral nervous system origin. Semin Diagn Pathol. 1999 16 65-78. 

Thymomas may occur in the pleura and can be confused with mesothelioma. These neoplasms may be confused with a sarcomatoid mesothelioma with a heavy lymphoid infiltrate or with a lymphohistiocytoid mesothelioma. None of the cases presented by Moran and coworkers showed radiographic evidence of a mediastinal tumor, however 6 cases showed histologic features of a mixed (lymphocyte-epithelial) thymoma. The neoplastic thymic epithelial cells express keratin and CD5. 

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