Symptoms of benign mediastinal tumors

summary

Mediastinal tumors refer to the tumors and cysts in the mediastinum between the two pleural cavities, including primary tumors and metastatic tumors. Mediastinal tumors can occur at any age, but most of them are young and middle-aged. Many primary tumors are located in the esophagus, trachea, bronchus and heart. The incidence rate varies with age. Many metastatic tumors are located in lymph nodes and lungs. Benign mediastinal tumor symptoms? Let's talk about it

Symptoms of benign mediastinal tumors

1. Chest tightness and chest pain are the most common symptoms of various mediastinal tumors. If the pain is severe, the patients who are intolerable are mostly malignant tumors.

2. Respiratory tract compression symptoms, when the tumor compression or invasion of the lung, bronchus, often cause coughing, shortness of breath, severe dyspnea. Tumor rupture can lead to atelectasis and pulmonary infection.

3. Nervous system symptoms, sympathetic nerve compression, such as blepharoptosis, pupil narrowing, enophthalmos, etc; Recurrent laryngeal nerve compression showed hoarseness; Involvement of phrenic nerve causes hiccup and diaphragm paralysis.

matters needing attention

Primary mediastinal tumors should be treated surgically, and antibiotics should be used before and after operation to prevent complications. The treatment process needs to be very slow. Patients must not have ideological pressure. They must actively cooperate with the treatment to recover as soon as possible.