Diagnostic and Therapeutic Problems in Benign Mediastinal Tumors

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Abstract
RAPID developments in thoracic surgery and increased use of mass roentgen surveys during the past decade have revealed a greater incidence of mediastinal lesions than heretofore suspected, have shown the necessity of efforts at more careful and exact diagnoses, and have brought about a profound change in the general attitude toward their treatment.For the numerous benign lesions which occur in the mediastinum, various classifications have been employed. All discrete and well circumscribed lesions have by usage been classified as benign tumors, although various types of cysts encountered are, in the strictest sense, not true neoplasms. In general, mediastinal tumefactions . . .

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