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mediastinal lymphadenopathy

Etiology: - infection - tuberculosis - histoplasmosis - coccidioidomycosis - nocardiosis [1] - Whipple's disease - neoplasm - acute lymphoblastic leukemia - lymphoma - lung carcinoma (associated lung mass) [3] - sarcoidosis - cystic fibrosis

General

lymphadenopathy mediastinal disease (diseases of the mediastinum)

References

  1. Dagogo-Jack I, Vaidya A, Geller B, Baden LR, Stone R. A Man with Fever, Cough and Rash N Engl J Med 2014 371:e11. August 21, 2014 PMID: 25140977 http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMimc1310796
  2. Wikipedia: Mediastinal lymphadenopathy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediastinal_lymphadenopathy
  3. Torre M, Reda M, Musso V, et al. Diagnostic accuracy of endobronchial ultrasound-transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) for mediastinal lymph node staging of lung cancer. Mediastinum. 2021;5:15. PMID: 35118321