Mediastinal hemangioma: Masquerading as pleural effusion

We present a rare case of mediastinal hemangioma in a 4-year-old child. The child presented with cough and fever and the chest radiograph revealed right pleural effusion. On further work-up with chest computed tomography mediastinal cystic mass occupying the right hemithorax was identified. The cyst...

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Autores principales: Deepak, J., Babu, M. Narendra, Gowrishankar, B. C., Ramesh, S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3853862/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24347874
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.121125
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author Deepak, J.
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description We present a rare case of mediastinal hemangioma in a 4-year-old child. The child presented with cough and fever and the chest radiograph revealed right pleural effusion. On further work-up with chest computed tomography mediastinal cystic mass occupying the right hemithorax was identified. The cystic mass was resected completely through a right thoracotomy. Histopathological examination established the final diagnosis of mediastinal capillary hemangioma.
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spelling pubmed-38538622013-12-16 Mediastinal hemangioma: Masquerading as pleural effusion Deepak, J. Babu, M. Narendra Gowrishankar, B. C. Ramesh, S. J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report We present a rare case of mediastinal hemangioma in a 4-year-old child. The child presented with cough and fever and the chest radiograph revealed right pleural effusion. On further work-up with chest computed tomography mediastinal cystic mass occupying the right hemithorax was identified. The cystic mass was resected completely through a right thoracotomy. Histopathological examination established the final diagnosis of mediastinal capillary hemangioma. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3853862/ /pubmed/24347874 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.121125 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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