title: [Mediastinal tumors in childhood].
abstract: The article reports on 41 mediastinal tumours in childhood treated from 1967 - 1978 on an inpatient basis. The distributory patterns show that 31.7% of the tumours had their origin in adjacent organs; 24.4% (10) were autochthonous tumours. 16 tumours were located in the posterior mediastinum (11 of which were malignant), 9 in the median mediastinum (7 of which malignant) and 16 in the anterior mediastinum (including 4 malignant ones). Of the primarily malignant tumours, 85% were lymphomas or tumours of neurogenic origin. The lethality of the malignant tumours was 52%. The article deals briefly with the symptomatology, localisation and diagnosis. As far as histology is concerned, a comparison with the mediastinal tumours in adults reveals considerable differences.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*
vernacular_title: Mediastinaltumoren im Kindesalter.