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GIANT LYMPH NODE HYPERPLASIA OF THE MEDIASTINUM
Author(s) -
Craddock D. R.,
Peacock M. J.,
Allen P. W.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1974.tb93337.x
Subject(s) - mediastinum , lymph node , hyperplasia , medicine , pathology , anatomy
Giant lymph node hyperplasia is a disease of unknown ætiology which causes a discrete mediastinal radiographic opacity. There are two clinicopathological variants. The plasma cell type is frequently associated with fever, and hæmatological abnormalities which disappear when the hyperplastic lymph node is excised. The more common hyaline vascular type is asymptomatic and is usually discovered by routine chest radiography. Surgical excision is curative. This paper describes three cases of giant mediastinal lymph node hyperplasia of the hyaline vascular type, which were successfully treated by surgical excision.