To study mediastinal masses completely (Cases 4 and 5 ... surgical procedure for the patient upon whom a scalene-lymph-node biopsy is performed; the placement of the catheter is an extension ...

We assessed the usefulness of fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) in the diagnosis of mediastinal germ cell tumors (GCTs). In the archives of 3 pathology departments, we found records of 7 ...

The cumulative incidence of postoperative infections (including wound infection, pneumonia, empyema) was similar after lung wedge re-section and after pleural or mediastinal mass biopsy procedures.