Mediastinal cystic teratoma misdiagnosed as pleural tuberculosis: A case report and review of 53 cases revealed by pleural effusion

Mediastinal teratoma (MT) can be misdiagnosed for a long period and revealed by fatal pleural effusion at any age. In high burden tuberculosis settings, it is important to consider MT for extra‐pulmonary tuberculosis not responding to medical treatment.

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Autores principales: Katoto, Patrick D. M. C., Byamungu, Liliane N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8190687/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34136228
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4139
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spelling pubmed-81906872021-06-15 Mediastinal cystic teratoma misdiagnosed as pleural tuberculosis: A case report and review of 53 cases revealed by pleural effusion Katoto, Patrick D. M. C. Byamungu, Liliane N. Clin Case Rep Case Reports Mediastinal teratoma (MT) can be misdiagnosed for a long period and revealed by fatal pleural effusion at any age. In high burden tuberculosis settings, it is important to consider MT for extra‐pulmonary tuberculosis not responding to medical treatment. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8190687/ /pubmed/34136228 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4139 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Katoto, Patrick D. M. C.
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Mediastinal cystic teratoma misdiagnosed as pleural tuberculosis: A case report and review of 53 cases revealed by pleural effusion
title Mediastinal cystic teratoma misdiagnosed as pleural tuberculosis: A case report and review of 53 cases revealed by pleural effusion
title_full Mediastinal cystic teratoma misdiagnosed as pleural tuberculosis: A case report and review of 53 cases revealed by pleural effusion
title_fullStr Mediastinal cystic teratoma misdiagnosed as pleural tuberculosis: A case report and review of 53 cases revealed by pleural effusion
title_full_unstemmed Mediastinal cystic teratoma misdiagnosed as pleural tuberculosis: A case report and review of 53 cases revealed by pleural effusion
title_short Mediastinal cystic teratoma misdiagnosed as pleural tuberculosis: A case report and review of 53 cases revealed by pleural effusion
title_sort mediastinal cystic teratoma misdiagnosed as pleural tuberculosis: a case report and review of 53 cases revealed by pleural effusion
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8190687/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34136228
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4139
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