Case report of the problem of diagnosis and therapy of mediastinal tumors with anterior venous obstruction

: At the instance of a patient with upper venous affluence blocking due to a space occupying process in the dorsal and medial mediastinum, the problems of differential diagnostics and therapy of this disease are discussed. In spite of intensive diagnostic efforts, the final diagnosis was only obtained at autopsy. A T-lymphoblastic non-Hodgkin-lymphoma was found.