(1) Background:
Our work compossed 50 patients who were provisionally diagnosed to have
mediastinal lesions. Full medical history, clinical examination and radiological
investigations were performed. One or more of the following invasive diagnostic
procedures were used to reach the histopathologic diagnosis:
1. Percutaneous CT guided biopsy which showed moderate positive results.(62%)
2. Video assisted thoracoscopic biopsy proved to be a sensitive method in well
selected cases. (80%)
3. Open biopsy is the best diagnostic tool when all the other tools failed, and
when complete resection of the lesions is anticipated. It showed 100% positively.
(2) Aim of the work:
To correlate findings of CT scan of the chest in mediastinal lesions with
histopathology and to detect the sensitivity of both in diagnosis of mediastinal
lesions.