What does mediastinal space occupying mean?

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Space occupying mainly refers to space occupying diseases, which is a special term in imaging diagnosis. Space occupying diseases can appear in multiple parts of the body, such as mediastinal space occupying. What does mediastinal space occupying mean? Mediastinal space occupying usually refers to mediastinal tumor, or malignant tumor, which needs further examination to determine the final cause. Let's take a look at mediastinal space occupying.

What does mediastinal space occupying mean?

If there is mediastinal space occupying, the possibility of tumor is very high. Because we know that the mediastinum is an important part of the heart, big blood vessels, trachea or esophagus. In general, the possibility of inflammation or infection in these tissues is very low. In general, if inflammation or infection occurs, the patient will have particularly obvious symptoms, such as fever, chest pain and so on. If there is no symptom of space occupying, generally speaking, most of them still consider the possibility of tumor is relatively high. At this time, patients need to further check chest CT, PET-CT and so on to further clarify the diagnosis and do not delay the treatment.

The name of mediastinum is unfamiliar to most readers. It is not an organ, but an anatomical region. There are many tissues and organs in the mediastinum, so a variety of tumors can occur. Even if the tumor is small, it will cause circulatory, respiratory, digestive and nervous system dysfunction. The incidence rate of mediastinal tumors in children is lower than that in adults, but there are many chances of canceration. About 2 / 3 of the children have cough, low fever, dyspnea and other symptoms in the early stage, which is related to the small chest volume of children. Some patients in the chest X-ray examination occasionally found, if it is a malignant tumor, there is anemia and emaciation. The doctor can determine the location and size of the tumor by chest X-ray, and know the nature of the tumor by ultrasonic examination.

Under normal circumstances, the mediastinum is not packed fast. CT indicates that mediastinal space occupying indicates that something should not be long inside the mediastinum. It may be mediastinal lymph node metastasis, tuberculosis, cancer and so on. Further examination and judgment are needed.

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At present, the vast majority of mediastinal space occupying lesions can be radical resection by thoracoscopic minimally invasive surgery, the operation time is relatively short, and the trauma is small. If the space occupying is large, the traditional median split operation is needed to remove the lesion.