Left-sided posterior mediastinal thymus--MRI findings. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Anomalous descent of the thymus may result in ectopic thymic tissue in the neck and/or the mediastinum and can mimic an abnormal mediastinal mass. We present one case of a "posterior mediastinal mass" that was diagnosed as a posterior mediastinal thymus utilizing CT plus MRI.

publication date

  • January 1, 1991

Research

keywords

  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Mediastinum
  • Thymus Gland

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0026077668

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1007/BF02026684

PubMed ID

  • 1749682

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 21

issue

  • 6