How to find the right patho?

CrystalClear75, BSN, RN · Feb 18, 2006

Hi,

My patho book for clinical doesn't have the diagnosis i'm looking for called a "Hiliar Mass" which is some type of cancer. I'd really like to know the nursing measures for this specific patho. Could someone help please, thanks.

hrtprncss · Feb 18, 2006

I think u mispelled it...It's "HILAR mass"

CrystalClear75, BSN, RN · Feb 18, 2006

I think u mispelled it...It's "HILAR mass"

Yah, that's what I meant.

hrtprncss · Feb 18, 2006

no I meant maybe that's why u didn't find it lol...if u didn't then google it there's a lot of info about it... :)

CrystalClear75, BSN, RN · Feb 18, 2006

no I meant maybe that's why u didn't find it lol...if u didn't then google it there's a lot of info about it... :)

I did google but I can't get a straight answer if you know what I mean. Thanks

SFCardiacRN · Feb 18, 2006

Try kidney.

kids · Feb 18, 2006

Several different organ have a hilum.

The term "hilar mass" is usually used to refer to a mass in an area near the mediastinum. It *usually* indicates some sort of cancer in the lungs or mediastinal lymph nodes.

From Gray's Anatomy http://www.bartleby.com/107/240.html

" The mediastinal surface (facies mediastinalis; inner surface) is in contact with the mediastinal pleura. It presents a deep concavity, the cardiac impression, which accommodates the pericardium; this is larger and deeper on the left than on the right lung, on account of the heart projecting farther to the left than to the right side of the median plane. Above and behind this concavity is a triangular depression named the hilum, where the structures which form the root of the lung enter and leave the viscus."

SFCardiacRN · Feb 18, 2006

While the kidney has a hilum, I think kids-r-fun is correct. GOOGLE hilar mass.