An Unusual Cause of Mediastinal Mass and Chylothorax

Mediastinal masses are commonly encountered in clinical practice. The commonly encountered anterior mediastinal masses include those of thymic or thyroid origin, teratomas, and lymphoma. Establishing the diagnosis by histopathology is essential considering the wide range of differential diagnosis an...

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Autores principales: Sattavarapu, Laxma Reddy, Narahari, Narendra Kumar, Balaram, Deepika Shree, Kapoor, Anu, Paramjyothi, G K
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7289211/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32566534
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijabmr.IJABMR_6_19
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author Sattavarapu, Laxma Reddy
Narahari, Narendra Kumar
Balaram, Deepika Shree
Kapoor, Anu
Paramjyothi, G K
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description Mediastinal masses are commonly encountered in clinical practice. The commonly encountered anterior mediastinal masses include those of thymic or thyroid origin, teratomas, and lymphoma. Establishing the diagnosis by histopathology is essential considering the wide range of differential diagnosis and to exclude malignancies. Here, we present an unusual case of large mediastinal mass with chylothorax in a young immunocompetent female.
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spelling pubmed-72892112020-06-19 An Unusual Cause of Mediastinal Mass and Chylothorax Sattavarapu, Laxma Reddy Narahari, Narendra Kumar Balaram, Deepika Shree Kapoor, Anu Paramjyothi, G K Int J Appl Basic Med Res Case Report Mediastinal masses are commonly encountered in clinical practice. The commonly encountered anterior mediastinal masses include those of thymic or thyroid origin, teratomas, and lymphoma. Establishing the diagnosis by histopathology is essential considering the wide range of differential diagnosis and to exclude malignancies. Here, we present an unusual case of large mediastinal mass with chylothorax in a young immunocompetent female. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2020-04-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7289211/ /pubmed/32566534 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijabmr.IJABMR_6_19 Text en Copyright: © 2020 International Journal of Applied and Basic Medical Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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