Ahuja Jitesh, Strange Chad D, Agrawal Rishi, Erasmus Lauren T, Truong Mylene T
Department of Thoracic Imaging, The University of Texas MD Andeson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Faculty of Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada.
Diagnostics (Basel). 2023 Oct 11;13(20):3171. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics13203171.
Mediastinal masses present a diagnostic challenge due to their diverse etiologies. Accurate localization and internal characteristics of the mass are the two most important factors to narrow the differential diagnosis or provide a specific diagnosis. The International Thymic Malignancy Interest Group (ITMIG) classification is the standard classification system used to localize mediastinal masses. Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are the two most commonly used imaging modalities for characterization of the mediastinal masses.
纵隔肿块因其病因多样而带来诊断挑战。肿块的准确定位和内部特征是缩小鉴别诊断范围或提供明确诊断的两个最重要因素。国际胸腺恶性肿瘤兴趣小组(ITMIG)分类是用于纵隔肿块定位的标准分类系统。计算机断层扫描(CT)和磁共振成像(MRI)是用于纵隔肿块特征描述的两种最常用的成像方式。