A short history of mediastinal tumours.

Abstract

The mediastinum constitutes an area of special surgical interest due to important anatomical relationships and histopathologic variability of mediastinal primary and metastatic tumours. Mediastinum was considered inaccessible until the end of the 19th century. For many decades the diagnosis of mediastinal disease relied solely upon clinical presentation, and the mainstay of treatment was medical therapy. The advancements in radiology and intraoperative ventilatory support facilitated the improvement of certain diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to mediastinal disease.

• Authors: Evaggelia Grisbolaki, Vasileios Leivaditis, Konstantinos Grapatsas, Efstratios Koletsis, Francesk Mulita, Maria Flouri, Dimos Gravanis, Georgios Vakis, Ioannis Panagiotopoulos, Manfred Dahm, Georgios-Ioannis Verras, Konstantinos Tasios, Andreas Antzoulas, Dimitrios Schizas, Admir Mulita, Konstantinos Spiliopoulos, Nikolaos Baltayiannis
• Journal: Kardiochirurgia i torakochirurgia polska = Polish journal of cardio-thoracic surgery (Kardiochir Torakochirurgia Pol) Vol. 20 Issue 3 Pg. 187-192 (Sep 2023) ISSN: 1731-5530 [Print] Poland
• PMID: 37937170 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Review)
• Copyright: Copyright: © 2023 Polish Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons (Polskie Towarzystwo KardioTorakochirurgów) and the editors of the Polish Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska).