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There is a variety of primary mediastinal tumors that include malignancies with heterogeneous histopathology. Each histology follows representative anatomical distribution according to compartments from the International Thymic Malignancy Interest Group (ITMIG) as follows: prevascular (anterior), visceral (middle), and paravertebral (posterior). Thereof, the anatomical location is a major determinant for differentiating mediastinal masses on cross-sectional imaging (Carter et al., J Thorac Oncol 9:S97–101, 2014). More than half of all mediastinal masses occur in the anterior compartment, with the thymus being the most common site of origin. Topics of this chapter are non-thymic mediastinal tumors, namely, neoplasms arising from lymphatic, germinal, mesenchymal, and neurogenic tissue.

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Milone, F., Taronna, G., Gnetti, L., Silva, M. (2020). Other Mediastinal Tumors. In: Sverzellati, N., Silva, M. (eds) The Thorax. Cancer Dissemination Pathways. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27233-3_7

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