"Mediastinum" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A membrane in the midline of the THORAX of mammals. It separates the lungs between the STERNUM in front and the VERTEBRAL COLUMN behind. It also surrounds the HEART, TRACHEA, ESOPHAGUS, THYMUS, and LYMPH NODES.
| Descriptor ID |
D008482
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A01.923.761.800.500
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Mediastinum" by people in Profiles.
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Jain S, Gupta A, Nagalla S. A Mediastinal Mass in a Young Man. JAMA. 2018 06 19; 319(23):2432-2433.
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Nooromid MJ, Bharat A. Posterior Mediastinal Cyst. Ann Thorac Surg. 2017 Jan; 103(1):e83.
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Guttman OT, Hammer A, Korsharskyy B. Spinal cord stimulation as a novel approach to the treatment of refractory neuropathic mediastinal pain. Pain Pract. 2009 Jul-Aug; 9(4):308-11.
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Sevilla DW, Choi JK, Gong JZ. Mediastinal adenopathy, lung infiltrates, and hemophagocytosis: unusual manifestation of pediatric anaplastic large cell lymphoma: report of two cases. Am J Clin Pathol. 2007 Mar; 127(3):458-64.
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Hendrickson RJ, Koniaris LG, Jiang S, Waldman D, Massey HT, Sitzmann JV. Purposeful delay in the repair of a traumatic left common carotid pseudoaneurysm in a bovine aortic arch presenting as a widened mediastinum. J Trauma. 2002 Dec; 53(6):1166-9.
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Engel WK, Lichter AS, Dalakas MC. Splenic and total-body irradiation treatment of myasthenia gravis. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1981; 377:744-54.