Radiology

Pathology

Occlusion

Fibrosis

Radiography

Surgery

Superior vena cava syndrome

Carcinoma

Mediastinum

Mediastinitis

Superior vena cava

Medicine

PubMed

In about 90% of superior vena caval obstructions the cause is a neoplasm, generally a carcinoma of the right upper lobe. Fewer than 5 percent are due to inflammatory disease of the mediastinum. A case of idiopathic, fibrosing mediastinitis with occlusion of the superior vena cava is described. The clinical symptoms, radiographic finding, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects are discussed.

[Upper inflow congestion as initial manifestation of idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis].