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A 60-year-old man presented with a six-month history of severe cough and was found to have persistently dilated neck veins and a large, nonpulsating substernal mass.
Case Report (n=1)
Case report of a 60-year-old man presenting with cough and a mediastinal mass.
Consider mediastinal pathology in refractory cough with neck vein distension; leaves open systematic study of this presentation.
Presentation of CaseA sixty-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of cough and a mediastinal mass.Six months previously the patient began to have a constant tickle in the throat that led to paroxysms of hacking cough, leaving him weak and with epigastric pain. The cough was occasionally productive of a moderate amount of yellow sputum; no hemoptysis occurred. Two weeks before entry, after a particularly severe paroxysm, his physician noticed inflammation of the throat, persistently dilated, nonpulsatile neck veins and increased substernal dullness. A fluoroscopic examination of the chest revealed a large, nonpulsating substernal mass overriding the . . .
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Hamlin et al. (1962) conducted a case report in Mediastinal mass (n=1). A 60-year-old man presented with a six-month history of severe cough and was found to have persistently dilated neck veins and a large, nonpulsating substernal mass.
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