[On the pathology of mediastinal tumors (author's transl)].

Review on the mediastinal tumors with a special view to the diverse morphologic expressions of mediastinal lymphomas. These tumors represents three groups: Castleman-Lymphom, Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin lymphomas. The nomenclature of the diversity of the morphologic features in mediastinal lymphomas have been reviewed, the relationship of the histologic findings to the clinical prognosis has been discussed.