Mediastinal cavernous haemangioma

PubMed, the Internet portal of biomedical and life sciences literature, indexed an interesting article, entitled “Successful removal of a slowly growing mediastinal cavernous haemangioma after vascular embolization” (Respirology. 2006 Jul;11(4):493-5). Authors are Lee SY, Lee JH, Hur GY et al, from the Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea. Mediastinal haemangioma is a rare disease. The authors report a 23-year-old male patient with a posterior mediastinal cavernous haemangioma. The CXR revealed a progressively enlarging mediastinal mass which on chest CT and angiography appeared to be a well-enhanced hypervascular tumour. The mass lesion following surgical removal was shown to be a cavernous haemangioma on histological examination. To access the full abstract of the article, click here.