Thoracic Research and Practice
Case report

Idiopathic Mediastinal Fibrosis Imitating Lung Cancer

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Atatürk Thoracic Diseases and Surgery Center, Department of Thoracic Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

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Atatürk Thoracic Diseases and Surgery Center, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ankara, Turkey

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School of Medicine, Ankara University, Department of Pathology, Ankara, Turkey

Thorac Res Pract 2001; 2: Turkish Respiratory Journal 51-53
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Idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis is an occasionally observed disease of mostly unknown etiology characterised by slowly progressive fibrosis and exuberant collagen formation within the mediastinum. This can result in clinical syndromes causing extension to and compression of the mediastinal struc­tures.In Europe, this disease is exceptionally rare. More cases are seen We present a young male patient who was at first thought to have pulmonary malignancy but later shown to have idiopathic medi­astinal fibrosis after a five-year follow-up.

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