[Feasibility of differential diagnosis of isolated lesions of mediastinal lymph nodes].
Surgical procedures such as mediastinoscopy (101 cases) and parasternal mediastinotomy (6 cases) were used for improvement of diagnosis of lesions in mediastinal organs. As a result of complex examination including histological methods, malignant lymphoma was diagnosed in 12 cases, Boeck's sarcoidosis--75, mediastinal form of lung cancer--8, tuberculosis of mediastinal lymph nodes--6 and other lesions of organs of the mediastinum--in 6 cases.
D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008477:Mediastinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014388:Tuberculosis, Lymph Node / Q000175:diagnosis*
Vozmozhnosti differentsial'noĭ diagnostike izolirovannykh porazheniĭ mediastinal'nykh limfaticheskikh uzlov.