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Mediastinum
Reviewer: Hanni Gulwani, M.D. (see Reviewers page)
Revised: 20 March 2013, last major update December 2012
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Table of contents
General: primary references general
Inflammatory disorders: acute mediastinitis chronic mediastinitis sclerosing mediastinitis
Thyroid/parathyroid: thyroid nodular hyperplasia parathyroid adenoma
Thymus: normal acute thymic involution diffuse thymic fibrosis ectopic thymus ectopic tissue in thymus myasthenia gravis thymic dysplasia thymic follicular hyperplasia true thymic hyperplasia
Cystic lesions: general bronchogenic enteric lymphangioma meningocele mullerian pancreatic pseudocyst parathyroid pericardial seminoma teratoma thymic thymoma-cystic
Tumors: general
Thymoma and related entities: cystic thymoma thymoma staging classification ectopic hamartomatous thymoma ectopic thymoma thymolipoma
Other benign/low grade tumors: angiomyolipoma elastolipoma ependymoma fibromatosis ganglioneuroma hemangioma inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor lipoma lipomatosis meningioma neurofibroma paraganglioma schwannoma solitary fibrous tumor
Thymic carcinoma: general adenocarcinoma adenosquamous anaplastic basaloid squamous cell clear cell lymphoepithelioma-like mucoepidermoid NUT midline parathyroid sarcomatoid small cell squamous cell-keratinizing squamous cell-nonkeratinizing undifferentiated
Other mediastinal carcinoma: metastatic neuroendocrine
Hematological neoplasms/lesions: Burkitt lymphoma Castleman diffuse large B cell lymphoma extramedullary hematopoiesis granulocytic sarcoma Hodgkin lymphoma Langerhans cell histiocytosis lymphoblastic lymphoma MALT lymphoma NK lymphoma nodal inclusions plasmacytoma
Other mediastinal malignancies: carcinoid chordoma follicular dendritic cell tumor ganglioneuroblastoma germ cell hemangioendothelioma leiomyosarcoma liposarcoma malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor melanoma mesothelioma neuroblastoma PNET reticulum cell rhabdomyosarcoma synovial sarcoma thymoliposarcoma
Miscellaneous: features to report grossing
SuperPage: entire chapter
Index (table of contents in alphabetical order)
A-E: acute mediastinitis acute thymic involution angiomyolipoma bronchogenic cyst Burkitt lymphoma carcinoid Castleman chordoma chronic mediastinitis cystic lesions-general cystic thymoma diffuse large B cell lymphoma diffuse thymic fibrosis ectopic hamartomatous thymoma ectopic tissue in thymus ectopic thymoma ectopic thymus elastolipoma enteric cyst ependymoma extramedullary hematopoiesis
F-J: features to report fibromatosis follicular dendritic cell tumor ganglioneuroblastoma ganglioneuroma germ cell granulocytic sarcoma grossing hemangioendothelioma hemangioma Hodgkin lymphoma inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor
K-O: Langerhans cell histiocytosis leiomyosarcoma lipoma lipomatosis liposarcoma lymphangioma lymphoblastic lymphoma malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor MALT lymphoma mediastinal tumors-general mediastinum-general melanoma meningioma meningocele mesothelioma metastatic carcinoma mullerian cyst myasthenia gravis neuroblastoma neuroendocrine neurofibroma NK lymphoma nodal inclusions NUT midline carcinoma
P-Z: pancreatic pseudocyst paraganglioma parathyroid adenoma parathyroid cyst pericardial cyst plasmacytoma PNET primary references reticulum cell rhabdomyosarcoma sclerosing mediastinitis schwannoma seminoma-cystic solitary fibrous tumor synovial sarcoma teratoma-cystic thymic adenocarcinoma thymic adenosquamous carcinoma thymic anaplastic carcinoma thymic basaloid squamous cell carcinoma thymic carcinoma-general thymic clear cell carcinoma thymic cyst thymic dysplasia thymic follicular hyperplasia thymic lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma thymic mucoepidermoid carcinoma thymic parathyroid carcinoma thymic sarcomatoid carcinoma thymic small cell carcinoma thymic squamous cell-keratinizing carcinoma thymic squamous cell-nonkeratinizing carcinoma thymic undifferentiated carcinoma thymolipoma thymoliposarcoma thymoma thymoma-classification thymoma-cystic thymoma-staging thymus-normal thyroid nodular hyperplasia true thymic hyperplasia
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