An Intrathoracic Meningocele in a Neurofibromatosis Type I Patient Mimicking Severe COVID-19 Disease

Intrathoracic meningoceles (IM) are quite rare; they are commonly associated with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF-1). We report a case of a 55-year-old lady who was admitted to our emergency department with a sore throat, mild fever, cough, and right-sided chest pain, and tested positive for coronaviru...

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Autores principales: Mousafeiris, Vasileios K, Papaioannou, Ioannis, Pantazidou, Georgia, Kalyva, Nektaria, Repantis, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9629748/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36348911
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29872
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author Mousafeiris, Vasileios K
Papaioannou, Ioannis
Pantazidou, Georgia
Kalyva, Nektaria
Repantis, Thomas
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Papaioannou, Ioannis
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Kalyva, Nektaria
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description Intrathoracic meningoceles (IM) are quite rare; they are commonly associated with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF-1). We report a case of a 55-year-old lady who was admitted to our emergency department with a sore throat, mild fever, cough, and right-sided chest pain, and tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Ιmaging revealed a meningocele in the right upper pulmonary area, attributed to her NF-1. Clinicians should be aware that patients with NF-1 can develop IM, and they should be included in the differential diagnosis of patients with an intrathoracic mass.
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spelling pubmed-96297482022-11-07 An Intrathoracic Meningocele in a Neurofibromatosis Type I Patient Mimicking Severe COVID-19 Disease Mousafeiris, Vasileios K Papaioannou, Ioannis Pantazidou, Georgia Kalyva, Nektaria Repantis, Thomas Cureus Emergency Medicine Intrathoracic meningoceles (IM) are quite rare; they are commonly associated with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF-1). We report a case of a 55-year-old lady who was admitted to our emergency department with a sore throat, mild fever, cough, and right-sided chest pain, and tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Ιmaging revealed a meningocele in the right upper pulmonary area, attributed to her NF-1. Clinicians should be aware that patients with NF-1 can develop IM, and they should be included in the differential diagnosis of patients with an intrathoracic mass. Cureus 2022-10-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9629748/ /pubmed/36348911 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29872 Text en Copyright © 2022, Mousafeiris et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Emergency Medicine
Mousafeiris, Vasileios K
Papaioannou, Ioannis
Pantazidou, Georgia
Kalyva, Nektaria
Repantis, Thomas
An Intrathoracic Meningocele in a Neurofibromatosis Type I Patient Mimicking Severe COVID-19 Disease
title An Intrathoracic Meningocele in a Neurofibromatosis Type I Patient Mimicking Severe COVID-19 Disease
title_full An Intrathoracic Meningocele in a Neurofibromatosis Type I Patient Mimicking Severe COVID-19 Disease
title_fullStr An Intrathoracic Meningocele in a Neurofibromatosis Type I Patient Mimicking Severe COVID-19 Disease
title_full_unstemmed An Intrathoracic Meningocele in a Neurofibromatosis Type I Patient Mimicking Severe COVID-19 Disease
title_short An Intrathoracic Meningocele in a Neurofibromatosis Type I Patient Mimicking Severe COVID-19 Disease
title_sort intrathoracic meningocele in a neurofibromatosis type i patient mimicking severe covid-19 disease
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9629748/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36348911
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29872
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