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Massive thymic hyperplasia presenting with respiratory insufficiency in a 2-year-old child
  1. Gilberto Szarf1,
  2. Thais Caldara Mussi de Andrade1,
  3. Renato de Oliveira2,
  4. Luiz Hiroshi Ota2,
  5. Henrique M Lederman1
  1. 1Department of Radiology, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  2. 2Department of Thoracic Surgery, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  1. Correspondence to Gilberto Szarf, Rua Sergipe 605 apt 73, Sao Paulo 01243-001, Brazil; gszarf{at}yahoo.com.br

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A 2-year-old boy presented with fever, dry cough and dyspnoea for 3 days. Breath sounds were absent and thoracic percussion revealed dullness in the lower two-thirds of the left hemithorax. A chest x-ray showed almost complete opacification of these areas (figure 1). The boy was successfully treated with antibiotics for lower airways infection but tachypnoea persisted and the x-ray showed no change after 6 weeks. A CT scan was performed and showed a heterogeneous mass in the anterior mediastinum, predominantly on the left side, occupying most of the left hemithorax. This lesion showed areas of lower attenuation interspersed with areas of soft tissue attenuation (figure 2). The possibility of …

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