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Cat Scratch Disease—A Benign Disease with Thymic Hyperplasia Mimicking Lymphoma

Cat scratch disease (CSD) is a benign condition caused by the inoculation of Bartonella henselae. The imaging findings are non-specific, and it is difficult to diagnose the disease via imaging. However, imaging studies help exclude other differential diagnoses in diagnostic dilemmas. We encountered...

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Autores principales: Leong, Ming Hui, Nabillah, Mohd Jadi, Rizuana, Iqbal Hussain, Asma, Abdullah, Kew, Thean Yean, Tan, Geok Chin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10378555/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37510201
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13142457
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author Leong, Ming Hui
Nabillah, Mohd Jadi
Rizuana, Iqbal Hussain
Asma, Abdullah
Kew, Thean Yean
Tan, Geok Chin
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description Cat scratch disease (CSD) is a benign condition caused by the inoculation of Bartonella henselae. The imaging findings are non-specific, and it is difficult to diagnose the disease via imaging. However, imaging studies help exclude other differential diagnoses in diagnostic dilemmas. We encountered a case of a 17-year-old adolescent who presented with painful neck swelling. CT showed multiple bilateral cervical lymphadenopathies with triangular soft tissue mass at the anterior mediastinum likely to be thymic hyperplasia, which is unusual in CSD and was mistaken for a lymphoproliferative disorder. Tissue diagnosis with a thorough clinical history yielded the diagnosis of cat scratch disease, and follow-up imaging showed resolution of the cervical lymphadenopathy and thymic hyperplasia.
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spelling pubmed-103785552023-07-29 Cat Scratch Disease—A Benign Disease with Thymic Hyperplasia Mimicking Lymphoma Leong, Ming Hui Nabillah, Mohd Jadi Rizuana, Iqbal Hussain Asma, Abdullah Kew, Thean Yean Tan, Geok Chin Diagnostics (Basel) Interesting Images Cat scratch disease (CSD) is a benign condition caused by the inoculation of Bartonella henselae. The imaging findings are non-specific, and it is difficult to diagnose the disease via imaging. However, imaging studies help exclude other differential diagnoses in diagnostic dilemmas. We encountered a case of a 17-year-old adolescent who presented with painful neck swelling. CT showed multiple bilateral cervical lymphadenopathies with triangular soft tissue mass at the anterior mediastinum likely to be thymic hyperplasia, which is unusual in CSD and was mistaken for a lymphoproliferative disorder. Tissue diagnosis with a thorough clinical history yielded the diagnosis of cat scratch disease, and follow-up imaging showed resolution of the cervical lymphadenopathy and thymic hyperplasia. MDPI 2023-07-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10378555/ /pubmed/37510201 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13142457 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Cat Scratch Disease—A Benign Disease with Thymic Hyperplasia Mimicking Lymphoma
title Cat Scratch Disease—A Benign Disease with Thymic Hyperplasia Mimicking Lymphoma
title_full Cat Scratch Disease—A Benign Disease with Thymic Hyperplasia Mimicking Lymphoma
title_fullStr Cat Scratch Disease—A Benign Disease with Thymic Hyperplasia Mimicking Lymphoma
title_full_unstemmed Cat Scratch Disease—A Benign Disease with Thymic Hyperplasia Mimicking Lymphoma
title_short Cat Scratch Disease—A Benign Disease with Thymic Hyperplasia Mimicking Lymphoma
title_sort cat scratch disease—a benign disease with thymic hyperplasia mimicking lymphoma
topic Interesting Images
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10378555/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37510201
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13142457
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