Diagnosis and surgical treatment of a mediastinal form of lymphogranulomatosis

: The article deals with material on 161 patients with the mediastinal form of lymphogranulomatosis. Variants of the X-ray picture and clinical manifestations of the disease are described. The authors list the indications for the use of bioptic methods of examination--prescalene biopsy, transthoracic needle biopsy, transtracheobronchial puncture, and mediastinoscopy. Comparative characteristics of the diagnostic value of these methods is given. Ten patients were treated by radical removal of the affected mediastinal lymph nodes, a satisfactory late--term result was produced in 8 of them.