Ewing's Sarcoma of the Rib, Presenting As the Superior Mediastinal Syndrome

The most common cause of this syndrome in adults is bronchogenic carcinoma; in children, a lymphonm. Other malignant causative lesions have included Hddgkin’s /sarcoma, . neural tumors, thymic tumors, teratomas and metastatic visceral tumors.*’ 4 Benign lesions, much less frequent, are expressions 6f such .~ diseases as tuberculosis,5 syphilitic mediastinitis,6 histoplasmosis, 1-, 4, -,,8 8 idiopathic chronic fibrous mediastinitis,7 postiwadiation mediastinal fibrosis,7 mediastinal trauma with

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