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Analysis of Seventy-Two Surgical Cases

LT. COL. B. G. STREETE, MC; LIEUT. COL. DAVID E. THOMAS, MC

AMA Arch Surg. 1958;77(1):105-109.

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The surgical availability of the mediastinum has stimulated interest in lesions of this area, but a review of the literature leads to confusion more than to clarity. The boundaries of the mediastinum vary from those stated by Maier,¹ who does not include neurogenic tumors because they are in the costovertebral gutter, and not the true mediastinum, through Peabody and others,² who include the middle mediastinum in the anterior portion and divide the mediastinum into superior and inferior compartments, each with an anterior and a posterior portion. The boundaries accepted by most authors will be used in this article and be delineated later.

Blades,³ Harrington,⁴ and Laipply⁵ reviewed this subject, and their combined statistics show that 75% of the anterior mediastinal tumors are of teratoid origin, 52% of the tumors of the middle mediastinum are bronchogenic cysts, 90% of all posterior mediastinal tumors are neuroblastomas, and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
U. S. A. F.; U. S. Army

Present addresses: 7100th U. S. A. F. Hospital, APO 633, New York (Lieutenant Colonel Streete). Valley Forge Army Hospital, Phoenixville, Pa. (Lieutenant Colonel Thomas).

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Jan. 24, 1958.

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