0 relating to the mediastinum (= the area of the chest that contains the heart and other organs and tissues) --
Involved sites included cervical (10 patients), intra-abdominal (one patient), and mediastinal (one patient) regions and the most common presenting symptoms were swelling of lymph nodes, fever, and malaise.
It is possible that antibiotics given to these infants to treat the coagulase-negative staphylococci bacteraemia after their first thoracotomy may have partially treated a mediastinal infection.
The thoracic surgery service had previously decided not to attempt to resect her mediastinal disease.
The clinical presentation in neonatal life may vary considerably depending upon the size and degree of compression of adjacent mediastinal structures.
Mediastinal drains were removed the morning after surgery.
Previous reports have stressed the acute nature of sternal wound and mediastinal infections in children.
Post-mortem showed extensive mediastinal widening due to a massive haematoma.
A single mediastinal drain and a single ventricular pacing wire were placed.
