| 1. | Anatomists, surgeons, and clinical radiologists compartmentalize the mediastinum differently.
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| 2. | A widened mediastinum is a classic but rare hallmark sign of anthrax infection.
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| 3. | Patients have trouble breathing because their lungs are compressed by fluid in the mediastinum.
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| 4. | Acute mediastinitis is usually bacterial and due to rupture of organs in the mediastinum.
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| 5. | It separates the pleural cavity from the mediastinum.
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| 6. | This is because they usually do not involve contamination of the mediastinum with gastric contents.
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| 7. | The mediastinum comprises those organs which lie in the centre of the chest between the lungs.
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| 8. | It also communicates with other cervical and cranial fascial spaces, as well as the mediastinum.
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| 9. | The inferior mediastinum is exposed to the level of the anterior aspect of the descending aorta.
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| 10. | A further Level VII to denote lymph node groups in the superior mediastinum is no longer used.
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