Idiopathic accessory hemiazygos vein aneurysm with an incidental mediastinal mass.

We herein report the case of an idiopathic aneurysm of the accessory hemiazygos vein diagnosed by contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) and angiography. The patient was asymptomatic, and a posterior mediastinal mass was incidentally found on CT. Because endoscopic ultrasonography showed no thrombus formation in the aneurysm, the patient was therefore managed conservatively.

[A case of large cell carcinoma of the lung associated with a sarcoid-like reaction inside the tumor].

A sarcoid-like reaction may occur inside a malignant tumor, in regional lymph-nodes or in adjacent tissues. An 83 year-old man who was found to have a mass in his left lower lung field on a chest radiograph. Transbronchial biopsy was performed and a non-caseating granulomatous lesion caused by a possible infectious disease was diagnosed.