Case for diagnosis: 4-month-old infant with increasing cough, hemoptysis, and anemia.
Pediatr Pulmonol
; 42(9): 844-6, 2007 Sep.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-17647288
ABSTRACT
A 4-month-old caucasian infant presented non-productive cough, fever associated with hemoptysis, and increasing anemia. He had mild tachypnoea; routine lab tests were normal. The thoracic HRCT scan showed a very large mass in the right lung adherent to the thorax wall, well defined and limiting the medium and upper lobe; the mass was well vascularized, and with central hypodensic areas. Fiberoptic bronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) cytology were normal. The definitive histology of the mass showed the presence of inflammatory cells admixed with fibroblasts and rare Touton giant cells in the lesion suggestive of a juvenile xanthogranuloma (JXG) of the lung.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Xanthogranuloma, Juvenile
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Cough
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Hemoptysis
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Anemia
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Lung Diseases
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
Limits:
Humans
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Infant
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Male
Language:
En
Journal:
Pediatr Pulmonol
Journal subject:
PEDIATRIA
Year:
2007
Document type:
Article
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