A 9-Year-Old Child With a Large Thoracic Mass

A 9-Year-Old Child With a Large Thoracic Mass

A healthy 9-year-old had 10 days of nonproductive cough without fever, wheeze, chest pain, or abdominal pain but with diminished breath sounds in the right lower lung field. Results of laboratory testing were unremarkable; computed tomography revealed a fat-density mass in the right anterior mediast...

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Veröffentlicht in:JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2024-10, Vol.332 (16), p.1388-1389
Hauptverfasser: Chen, Chenghao, Yu, Jie, Zeng, Qi
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Computed tomography
Cough
Mediastinum
Opacity
Primary care
Thorax
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Zusammenfassung:A healthy 9-year-old had 10 days of nonproductive cough without fever, wheeze, chest pain, or abdominal pain but with diminished breath sounds in the right lower lung field. Results of laboratory testing were unremarkable; computed tomography revealed a fat-density mass in the right anterior mediastinum. What is the diagnosis and what would you do next?
ISSN:0098-7484
1538-3598
1538-3598
DOI:10.1001/jama.2024.16482