title: [Pathological mass in media mediastinum - diagnostic difficulties].
abstract: Pathological mediastinal masses are usually unexpected, common findings. This discovery needs a wide range of diagnostic approach. The way of treatment depends on results of diagnostic tests and images and sometimes difficult decision has to be made as it was in a case report of 76 year-old man in whom according to echocardiogram and computed tomography a large postmyocardial aneurysm of left ventricle was found. But intraoperative finding revealed purulent pericarditis.
authors.affiliation: Klinika Kardiologii, Uniwersytet Medyczny, Białystok. anlila@poczta.onet.pl
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lisowska
authors.forename: Małgorzata
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Knapp
authors.forename: Bożena
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sobkowicz
authors.forename: Tomasz
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hirnle
authors.forename: Urszula
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Kosacka
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000473:pathology*