Rapidly Growing Mediastinal Mass

Case:

A 22-year-old presented with a prevascular space mediastinal mass extending into the visceral space and markedly increasing in size over 9 days with pleural and pericardial involvement

Thoughts?

1. Lymphoma
2. Germ cell tumor

I biopsied it and we got a diagnosis, a specific histology, which apparently should have been the first diagnosis in my head...but I wasn't aware of this till I read it up.

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Snippet 33 - Pneumoconiosis

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Index and Table of Contents

117 Cases with Videos
11 Cases with Posts
33 Snippets
16 Lectures
46 Cases of the Day (CODs)
New Series - ILD Patterns (4 Done)

Index and Table of Contents

Technical and Practice Issues * Case 11: 62-years old misdiagnosed to have interstitial lung disease - mid-inspiratory and expiratory scans * Snippet 03: Radiation risk and CT chest * Case 23: 60-years old - 40-pack years smoker - right upper lobe nodule - resolved using “mean” reconstructions…

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