What's the difference between mediastinal and mediastinum?

Mediastinal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a mediastinum.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
  • (2) Mediastinoscopy confirmed the presence of mediastinal metastases in 23 patients.
  • (3) We report a rare case of odontogenic abscess, detected while the patient was in the intensive care unit (ICU), which resulted in sepsis and the patient's death due to mediastinitis, skull osteomyelitis, and deep neck cellulitis.
  • (4) These patients developed mediastinal lymph node metastasis and died 4 and 11 months after surgery, respectively.
  • (5) A chest X-ray examination showed a large mediastinal mass on the right.
  • (6) Of the patients with peripheral lung cancer lesions smaller than 2 cm who underwent surgery, 21% had peribronchial, hilar, or mediastinal lymph node metastasis.
  • (7) Findings for 56 patients show the largest normal mediastinal nodes to be in the subcarinal and right tracheobronchial regions.
  • (8) However, patients with mature-stage T-NHL, with or without the addition of subjects with mature-stage T-ALL, were less likely to have a mediastinal mass (P = .02 for both comparisons).
  • (9) Plain-film chest radiographs subsequently demonstrated mediastinal masses causing extrinsic tracheal compression.
  • (10) From 1971 to 1984, 499 patients with all stages of Hodgkin's disease received mediastinal irradiation at the Institut Gustave-Roussy by 25 MV photons from a linear accelerator.
  • (11) Chest X-ray computed tomography showed posterior mediastinal tumor.
  • (12) Interconnections between mediastinal channels were demonstrated.
  • (13) Her chest roentgenogram showed a moderate amount of pleural effusion in the left pleural cavity without infiltration in the lung fields and no evidence of swollen hilar or mediastinal lymphnodes.
  • (14) AFP should be determined in all cases of mediastinal lesion.
  • (15) Silica accumulated linearly in the mediastinal lymph nodes and thymus for several months after cessation of exposure, while negligible amounts were found in kidney, spleen, liver, and blood.
  • (16) Patients receiving 20 Gy or more of mediastinal irradiation before coming to transplant had more idiopathic or cytomegalovirus (CMV) interstitial pneumonitis than those who received less than 20 Gy (30% v 9%, P = .027).
  • (17) In some cases this has led to the misdiagnosis of mediastinal pathology and an unnecessary thoracotomy.
  • (18) In N2, the prognosis was significantly worse if there were two or more foci of mediastinal lymph node metastasis or if subcarinal lymph node metastasis was present.
  • (19) Our experience suggests that the optimal management of patients with primary mediastinal endodermal sinus tumor requires an aggressive multidisciplinary approach guided by the extent of the tumor and the serum tumor marker levels.
  • (20) No infection occurred after reexploration for bleeding nor did mediastinal infection occur after reoperation in the intensive care unit.

Mediastinum


Definition:

  • (n.) A partition; a septum; specifically, the folds of the pleura (and the space included between them) which divide the thorax into a right and left cavity. The space included between these folds of the pleura, called the mediastinal space, contains the heart and gives passage to the esophagus and great blood vessels.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The masses were solitary and located in the retroperitoneum (five cases), mediastinum (one case), and axilla (one case).
  • (2) In general, air from the mediastinum far more often enters the left pleural cavity than the right one.
  • (3) Although bronchogenic cysts may involve the mediastinum, they have rarely been responsible for significant upper airway obstruction.
  • (4) X-ray CT and MRI of the mediastinum showed images compatible with residual thymic tissue in 8 of 9 patients.
  • (5) Three years after radiotherapy to the mediastinum for Hodgkin's disease, a 28 year old female presented with incapacititating angina.
  • (6) Autopsy findings showed no scar formation of his testes, and the primary lesion was finally diagnosed to be in the anterior mediastinum.
  • (7) A round mass in the dorsal, upper-right mediastinum is demonstrated in a patient with aneurysm of the innominate artery.
  • (8) Testicular tissue at ectopic site was identified by presence of characteristic signal intensity pattern, mediastinum testis and its location along empty spermatic canal in cases of inguinal testis either singly or in combination.
  • (9) All SR algorithms that were postprocessed to optimize imaging of the mediastinum were significantly inferior to FR in the detection of pulmonary lesions.
  • (10) Clearance into the mediastinum may be the major pathway for liquid sequestered in the loose, binding connective tissue.
  • (11) By means of several diagnostic procedures consisting of radiography, fluoroscopy, roentgen-kymography, angiocardiography and needle-biopsy under visible control it is often possible to distinguish between primary pericardiac lesions and growths of the mediastinum lying in close contact to the heart.
  • (12) The authors present the selective catheterization of the veins of the neck and mediastinum via the subclavian vein.
  • (13) those undergoing extended lymphadenectomy (particularly for lymph nodes of both sides of neck and upper mediastinum) and those of old age (70 years or above), were investigated for eventual characteristic features of postoperative changes in the parameters mentioned above.
  • (14) In order to study the effects of the commonly employed contrast media alone and in combination with bacteria in the mediastinum, various mixtures of barium and meglamine diatrizoate (Gastrografin) with and without flora were instilled in the mediastinum of 29 domestic cats.
  • (15) Five of the six stage 2 patients had positive foci located in the mediastinum or the lung areas and in the myocardium in one of them.
  • (16) In CT diagnosis for this type of dissection, cautions should be employed not only in an inhomogenous density area in the mediastinum and pleural cavity but also in the presence of deviation of intimal calcification and relatively high density area of crescent shape in aortic wall on plain CT.
  • (17) The PPD was positive and X-ray showed widening of the mediastinum.
  • (18) Similar cellulitis, mainly perivascular, was found in kidneys and anterior mediastinum.
  • (19) Further venous samplings were collected during cervico mediastinal phlebography because of persistent hypercalcemia: parathormone levels were high in a thymic vein and a new cervicotomy revealed a fifth gland with an adenoma in the high mediastinum.
  • (20) 58 patients have been operated for neurogenic tumors of the mediastinum.

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