Mediastinal widening (differential)

The differential diagnoses for mediastinal widening include:

• traumatic aortic injury
• vascular anomalies
  • unfolded aorta
  • thoracic aortic aneurysm
  • double SVC
  • aberrant right subclavian artery
  • azygos continuation of the IVC
• pneumomediastinum
• lung
  • atelectasis
  • pulmonary masses abutting the mediastinum
• mediastinal lymphadenopathy
• enlarged pulmonary arteries
• mediastinal lipomatosis
• masses
  • anterior mediastinal masses
  • middle mediastinal masses
  • posterior mediastinal masses
• thymus
• diaphragmatic hernia
• technical factors (on chest x-ray)
  • rotation
  • poor inspiration
  • supine position
  • lordotic position

See also

• fatty mediastinal masses

Siehe auch:

• Aortenelongation
• persistierende linke obere Hohlvene
• Arteria lusoria
• upside-down-Magen
• Atelektase
• Azygoskontinuität
• Hiatushernie
• Thymus
• Mediastinalemphysem
• thorakales Aortenaneurysma
• thorakale Aortenverletzungen
• mediastinale Lymphadenopathie
• mediastinale Lipomatose
• mediastinale Raumforderungen
• mediastinal widening consecutive to arterial hemorrhage
• erweiterte Pulmonalarterie

und weiter:

• mediastinal Hodgkin's lymphoma
• Mediastinalhämatom