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Anterior mediastinum

Known as: prevascular space, MEDIASTINUM, ANTERIOR, Mediastinum anterius 
The area between the lungs; it contains the thymus, some lymph nodes, and vessels and branches of the internal thoracic artery.
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Idiopathic fibroinflammatory (fibrosing/sclerosing) lesions of the mediastinum: a study of 30 cases with emphasis on morphologic heterogeneity.
The clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical findings in 30 cases of idiopathic fibroinflammatory lesions of the mediastinum are… 
Review
1998
Review
1998
Frozen section diagnosis and surgical biopsy of lymph nodes, tumors and pseudotumors of the mediastinum.
1998
1998
Giant solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura.
1997
1997
Hepatoid yolk sac tumors of the mediastinum: a clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study of four cases.
Four cases of primary hepatoid yolk sac tumors of the anterior mediastinum are described. The patients were all men between the… 
Review
1997
Review
1997
A review of the current status of breast ultrasound
1995
1995
Artificial widening of the mediastinum to gain access for extrapleural biopsy: clinical results.
PURPOSE To assess the utility of artificial widening of the extrapleural space to gain an extrapleural biopsy access route to the… 
Review
1994
Review
1994
Malignant smooth muscle tumors presenting as mediastinal soft tissue masses. A clinicopathologic study of 10 cases
Background. Smooth muscle tumors presenting as mediastinal soft tissue masses are extremely rare and often are mistaken for other… 
1986
1986
Submammary skin incision as a cosmetic approach to median sternotomy.
Review
1960
Review
1960
Present health of children given x-ray treatment to the anterior mediastinum in infancy.
ARECENT SURVEY showed that the incidence of neoplasia in a group of children who had been treated with x-rays in infancy for… 
Review
1947
Review
1947
Pericardial celomic cysts.
In the presidential address before the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery at Cleveland… 
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