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Mediastinal mass can be seen in a variety of childhood cancer: leukemias, lymphomas, neuroblastomas, and rare tumors. Some children are presenting with respiratory symptoms, but a lot of children are surprisingly asymptomatic, and the mass is only picked up on imaging.
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Scheinemann, K. (2012). Mediastinal Mass and Superior Vena Cava Syndrome. In: Scheinemann, K., Boyce, A. (eds) Emergencies in Pediatric Oncology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1174-1_4
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