A late complication of a diagnostic mediastinoscopy.
A 69-year-old man with a moderately well differentiated squamous-cell carcinoma of the lung, underwent a mediastinoscopy. All histological examinations of the mediastinal nodes were negative. The patient was treated with a curative left pneumonectomy. Three months after this negative mediastinoscopy the patient developed a metastasis in the mediastinoscopy scar. A report of this case and a review of the literature are presented.
D000368:Aged; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008481:Mediastinoscopy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009366:Neoplasm Seeding; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology*; D013997:Time Factors