Mediastinal teratoma presenting with hemoptysis and pleuritis misdiagnosed as tuberculosis (empyema)

BACKGROUND: Mediastinal teratoma is uncommon in children. It can be very difficult to diagnose especially in early stage. Rarely, teratoma may rupture into adjacent structures and lead to lung lesions or pleuritis. The main rarity of our reported cases was the dynamic imaging findings very similar t...

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I publikationen:BMC Pediatr
Huvudupphovsmän: Liu, Jinrong, Tian, Baolin, Zeng, Qi, Chen, Chenghao, Zhou, Chunju, Li, Huimin, Shen, Yuelin, Zhao, Shunying
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: BioMed Central 2018
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Case Report
Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6280544/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30514248
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-018-1357-7
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