When the goitre is fixed in the thorax, the clinical features are those of a mediastinal tumour with lateral displacement of the trachea, and engorgement of the veins of the neck.
The density and tension of the cervical fascia cause the pus to burrow downwards towards the mediastinal spaces of the thorax, where it may give rise to such complications as empyema, infective pericarditis, or gangrene of the lung.
The autopsy revealed generalized tuberculosis, involving the lungs, mediastinal glands, spleen, liver, and kidneys.
Bronchial and mediastinallymph glands contained numerous tuberculous foci, and the pericardium, peritoneum, spleen, and liver also were affected.
The inner or mediastinalsurface is concave, and the middle portion, where all the vessels enter and leave the lung is called the root.
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Then she lay back half asleep, half awake, her hands clasped behind her smooth head, her eyes fixed on the shifting pattern beneath the glaze.
I think the rarity of the last sign must have been due to the early coagulation of the blood, and its retention by the pleura, as I saw well-marked gravitation ecchymosis in one or two cases of mediastinal hæmorrhage.
Evidence of mediastinal hæmorrhage existed in the presence of subcutaneous discoloration of the abdominal wall, below the ensiform cartilage and extending slightly over the costal margin of the thorax.
I never saw a case in which I could assume injury to any of the posterior mediastinal viscera, although such may have occurred on the field of battle.
Two areolets between the costal andmediastinal nervures.
The two areolets between the costal and postcostal nervures; the mediastinal being nearly obsolete.
Mediastinal pleura, forming a second investment for the heart, bloodvessels, &c.
Rupture of the thoracic esophagus produces profound shock, fever, mediastinal emphysema, and rapid sinking.
It may rarely occur as a primary infection, but usually the esophagus is involved in an extension from a tuberculous process in the larynx, mediastinal lymphatics, pleura, bronchi, or lungs.
The head of the tack catches below a chondrial ring and rips in, tearing its way through the bronchial wall (D) causing death by mediastinal emphysema.
Healed tuberculous lesions, sometimes resulting from the evacuation of tuberculous mediastinal lymph nodes into the esophagus may be encountered.
Substernal goitre, aneurysm, malignant growths, and various mediastinal adenopathies may displace the trachea from its normal course.
The laryngoscope may also reveal the presence of an aortic aneurism or a mediastinal tumour.
What is more important, we should be without a means of diagnosis which has proved invaluable in the detection of unsuspected disease of the brain and in the elucidation of obscure mediastinal affections.
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