Sclerosing mediastinitis in a smoker with suspected lung cancer

A case history is presented of a middle-age patient with a rare cause of haemoptysis presenting as a pulmonary mass associated with mediastinal lymphadenopathy. Surgical resection demonstrated sclerosing (or fibrosing) mediastinitis, a condition uncommon outside areas of endemic fungal infection. We describe a case whereby an FDG-PET scan showed avid uptake of signal highly suspicious of...