Mediastinal tumor late symptoms?

summary

Most benign mediastinal tumors are asymptomatic, more than those found in physical examination. Chest tightness and chest pain are the most common symptoms of mediastinal tumors. If the pain is severe, the patients who are intolerable are mostly malignant tumors. If patients have these common symptoms of mediastinal tumor, they must go to the hospital in time, early detection, early treatment and early cure.

Mediastinal tumor late symptoms?

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.

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.

Cardiovascular symptoms, palpitation, arrhythmia, facial and neck edema. Dysphagia, tumor compression or invasion of the esophagus. Chest tightness and chest pain are the most common symptoms of mediastinal tumors. If the pain is severe, the patients who are intolerable are mostly malignant tumors.

matters needing attention

Special symptoms: the teratoma broke into the bronchus, and the patient coughed up sebum and hair. The rupture of the bronchocyst was connected with the bronchus and presented with bronchopleural fistula. A small number of patients with intrathoracic thyroid tumors have hyperthyroidism. Patients with thymoma sometimes have myasthenia gravis.