Mediastinal lymphadenopathy is the swelling of the lymph nodes in the chest cavity. It is a symptom of various conditions and can be benign or malignant. Mediastinal lymphadenopathy is a condition ...

Mediastinitis is a term used to describe all inflammatory processes of the connective tissue of mediastinal structures and involves spaces between serous membranes known as pleura. Due to the ...

This condition happens when a person develops air in their mediastinum, which is the space between the lungs and the other organs in the chest cavity, including the heart. A pneumomediastinum can ...

The sixth rib is removed to provide access, and the space between the lung and chest cavity is carefully dissected—a process ... The pleura now can be moved from the mediastinum. Once the upper ...

or pyothorax (thoracic empyema, an accumulation of pus in a cavity of the body—which can result in chronic inflammation of the mediastinum and impermeability to pleural fluid). The decision as ...

To enable clinicians to distinguish malignant cancerous chest cavity masses from those caused ... laboratory tests and CT scans of patients with such "mediastinal" masses offers the potential ...

The David J. Sugarbaker Division of Thoracic Surgery at Baylor Medicine specializes in the care and treatment of patients with all benign and malignant disorders of the chest cavity (thorax). This ...