MEDIASTINAL emphysema, its precursors and its sequelae have been known to clinicians for well over a century. Laënnec, 1 in his treatise on diseases of the chest, published in 1819, gave an ...

RESULTS: Thirty-one patients meeting the above criteria were reviewed, and superior mediastinal disease was present in 19 patients (61.3%). Superior mediastinal nodes were positive in 13 (65% ...