Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases

The Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases (대한결핵및호흡기학회)
권호 표지

Anterior Mediastinal Mass with Cavitation

낭종을 함유한 전 종격동 종괴

  • Park, Hong-Su (Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine) ;
  • Yun, Seung-Baik (Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine) ;
  • Park, Kwang-Joo (Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine) ;
  • Kim, Hyung-Jung (Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine) ;
  • Ahn, Chul-Min (Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine)
  • 박홍수 (연세대화교 의과대학 내과학교실) ;
  • 윤승백 (연세대화교 의과대학 내과학교실) ;
  • 박광주 (연세대화교 의과대학 내과학교실) ;
  • 김형중 (연세대화교 의과대학 내과학교실) ;
  • 안철민 (연세대화교 의과대학 내과학교실)
  • Published : 1997.10.31
Download PDF
⟨ Previous Next ⟩

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.

Keywords