Primary Mediastinal Lymphoma; The trend of incidence has turned toward the adults!

Abstract

Background: Thymoma, lymphoma and neurogenic tumors are accounted as common mediastinal masses. They are more common in youngsters and middle ages. Although, lymphoma is proved to be more common in children, in recent years in our territory, adult cases were more dominant in referrals than previous.Materials and methods: This retrospective review of incidence and pathologic types were performed during last seven years since May 2004. All the patients with mediastinal mass (MM) were admitted in the study with characters of age, sex, clinical manifestations, chest radiography and CT scanning and biopsy for histological results.Result: A total number of 97 patients, with mediastinal involvement by primary masses, were contributed in this study. Biopsy was taken through the several ways. The numbers of 52(53.60%) “Lymphoma” and 45 (46.40%) cases with other pathologic results were dominantly detected with “tuberculosis”. Two cases of lymphoma was found in two referred cases with MMs