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Mediastinal Non-neoplastic Conditions

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Mediastinum can be interested by a variety of neoplastic and non-neoplastic conditions, mostly affecting the anterior mediastinum. Mediastinal disease can be suspected at conventional radiography and further investigated at CT and MRI. This chapter is focused on non-neoplastic conditions; congenital diseases are discussed in the first part, such as oesophageal duplication cysts, bronchogenic, thymic and pericardial cysts and other less common entities. In the second part of the chapter we focus on acquired conditions, such as infectious/inflammatory, vascular and iatrogenic diseases.

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  1. Department of Radiological, Oncological and Anatomopatological Sciences, Sapienza—University of Rome, Policlinico Umberto I, Rome, Italy

    Beatrice Sacconi & Giada Valente

  2. Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Mariaelena Occhipinti

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  1. Sapienza Università di Roma, Policlinico Umberto I, Rome, Italy

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  2. Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Rome Sapienza, Policlinico Umberto I, Rome, Italy

    Marco Anile

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Sacconi, B., Valente, G., Occhipinti, M. (2018). Mediastinal Non-neoplastic Conditions. In: Anzidei, M., Anile, M. (eds) Diagnostic Imaging for Thoracic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89893-3_15

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