The Key Role of Lung Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of a Mature Cystic Teratoma in a Child with Suspected Difficult to Treat Pneumonia: A Case Report

To date, the diagnosis of mediastinal teratoma and mediastinal masses relies on the use of chest X-ray and CT. Lung and thoracic ultrasound is becoming increasingly used in the diagnosis and follow-up of many lung and thoracic diseases. Here, we report the case of a mature cystic teratoma in which t...

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Autores principales: Iovine, Elio, Petrarca, Laura, Regina, Domenico Paolo La, Matera, Luigi, Mancino, Enrica, Di Mattia, Greta, Midulla, Fabio, Nenna, Raffaella
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Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9024723/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35455599
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9040555
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author Iovine, Elio
Petrarca, Laura
Regina, Domenico Paolo La
Matera, Luigi
Mancino, Enrica
Di Mattia, Greta
Midulla, Fabio
Nenna, Raffaella
author_facet Iovine, Elio
Petrarca, Laura
Regina, Domenico Paolo La
Matera, Luigi
Mancino, Enrica
Di Mattia, Greta
Midulla, Fabio
Nenna, Raffaella
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description To date, the diagnosis of mediastinal teratoma and mediastinal masses relies on the use of chest X-ray and CT. Lung and thoracic ultrasound is becoming increasingly used in the diagnosis and follow-up of many lung and thoracic diseases. Here, we report the case of a mature cystic teratoma in which the performance of lung ultrasound allowed to speed up the diagnostic workup and to provide the indication for the execution of CT of the thorax allowing the diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-90247232022-04-23 The Key Role of Lung Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of a Mature Cystic Teratoma in a Child with Suspected Difficult to Treat Pneumonia: A Case Report Iovine, Elio Petrarca, Laura Regina, Domenico Paolo La Matera, Luigi Mancino, Enrica Di Mattia, Greta Midulla, Fabio Nenna, Raffaella Children (Basel) Case Report To date, the diagnosis of mediastinal teratoma and mediastinal masses relies on the use of chest X-ray and CT. Lung and thoracic ultrasound is becoming increasingly used in the diagnosis and follow-up of many lung and thoracic diseases. Here, we report the case of a mature cystic teratoma in which the performance of lung ultrasound allowed to speed up the diagnostic workup and to provide the indication for the execution of CT of the thorax allowing the diagnosis. MDPI 2022-04-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9024723/ /pubmed/35455599 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9040555 Text en © 2022 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/).
spellingShingle Case Report
Iovine, Elio
Petrarca, Laura
Regina, Domenico Paolo La
Matera, Luigi
Mancino, Enrica
Di Mattia, Greta
Midulla, Fabio
Nenna, Raffaella
The Key Role of Lung Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of a Mature Cystic Teratoma in a Child with Suspected Difficult to Treat Pneumonia: A Case Report
title The Key Role of Lung Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of a Mature Cystic Teratoma in a Child with Suspected Difficult to Treat Pneumonia: A Case Report
title_full The Key Role of Lung Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of a Mature Cystic Teratoma in a Child with Suspected Difficult to Treat Pneumonia: A Case Report
title_fullStr The Key Role of Lung Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of a Mature Cystic Teratoma in a Child with Suspected Difficult to Treat Pneumonia: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed The Key Role of Lung Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of a Mature Cystic Teratoma in a Child with Suspected Difficult to Treat Pneumonia: A Case Report
title_short The Key Role of Lung Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of a Mature Cystic Teratoma in a Child with Suspected Difficult to Treat Pneumonia: A Case Report
title_sort key role of lung ultrasound in the diagnosis of a mature cystic teratoma in a child with suspected difficult to treat pneumonia: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9024723/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35455599
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9040555
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