All that wheezes: A young infant with a mediastinal mass

Wheezing infants are frequently encountered in the emergency department. Bronchiolitis is the most commonly seen cause. Radiographs are not recommended in the routine management of bronchiolitis. We present the case of a young wheezing infant with a mildly abnormal chest x-ray whose cystic hygroma c...

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Autores principales: Callanan, Deborah L, Tong, Timothy, Doski, John J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2014
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4857348/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27489658
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X14553864
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description Wheezing infants are frequently encountered in the emergency department. Bronchiolitis is the most commonly seen cause. Radiographs are not recommended in the routine management of bronchiolitis. We present the case of a young wheezing infant with a mildly abnormal chest x-ray whose cystic hygroma caused life-threatening respiratory distress soon after he was admitted to the hospital.
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spelling pubmed-48573482016-08-03 All that wheezes: A young infant with a mediastinal mass Callanan, Deborah L Tong, Timothy Doski, John J SAGE Open Med Case Rep Case Report Wheezing infants are frequently encountered in the emergency department. Bronchiolitis is the most commonly seen cause. Radiographs are not recommended in the routine management of bronchiolitis. We present the case of a young wheezing infant with a mildly abnormal chest x-ray whose cystic hygroma caused life-threatening respiratory distress soon after he was admitted to the hospital. SAGE Publications 2014-10-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4857348/ /pubmed/27489658 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X14553864 Text en © The Author(s) 2014 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/openaccess.htm).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4857348/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27489658
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X14553864
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