What could hemoptysis hide in an otherwise healthy child?

✍ Scribed by Raffaella Nenna; Paola Papoff; Corrado Moretti; Giulia Cangiano; Valentina Ferro; Serena Salvadei; Giuseppe Soda; Maurizio Mennini; Prof. Fabio Midulla

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 194 KB
• Volume: 46
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 8755-6863
• DOI: 10.1002/ppul.21498

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

We describe a previously healthy 12‐year‐old boy who attended our Department after a sudden episode of hemoptysis and recurrent consolidation. CT‐scan revealed a mediastinal tumor. The biopsy specimens taken from the mass showed a mature teratoma. Hemoptysis is an unusual presenting symptom in an otherwise healthy child with a well capsulated, unruptured mature mediastinal teratoma. In this report, hemoptysis prompted us to undertake the diagnostic work‐up that eventually disclosed the tumor. Pediatr. Pulmonol. 2011; 46:1146–1148. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.