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[View large image] Clinical presentation:
24 year old man with sore throat and swelling in the neck.

There is a soft tissue density on the right side of the upper mediastinum with a convex visible lateral margin. It replaces the normal right tracheal stripe. An additional density lies above the left hilum, replacing the aorto-pulmonary pleural line that marks the site of the ductal node.

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cases that might resemble this pathology

[View large image] Bronchial carcinoma (case report) [View large image] Tuberculosis with collapse LUL. (case report)
[View large image] Metastasis, (case report) [View large image] Sarcoidosis (case report)
[View large image] Chest trauma mediastinal haematoma (case report) [View large image] Mediastinal Hamartoma Dermoid cyst (case report)
[View large image] Thymoma (case report) [View large image] Extramedullary haematopoiesis (case report)
[View large image] Chylous cyst (case report) [View large image] Neurilemmoma (case report)
[View large image] Carcinoma Oesophagus (case report) [View large image] Aortic dissection (case report)
Abnormal cardiovascular structures may give appearance of mediastinal masses
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including hemi-azygous system in abdominal malignancies and cirrhosis. Anomalous pulmonary venous drainage (case report) [View large image] Azygous lobe illusion (case report)
[View large image] Collapse RUL Bronchial adenoma (case report)
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IDM May 2006