• Pediatric pulmonology · Nov 2011

    Case Reports

    What could hemoptysis hide in an otherwise healthy child?

    • Raffaella Nenna, Paola Papoff, Corrado Moretti, Giulia Cangiano, Valentina Ferro, Serena Salvadei, Giuseppe Soda, Maurizio Mennini, and Fabio Midulla.
    • Department of Pediatrics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
    • Pediatr. Pulmonol. 2011 Nov 1;46(11):1146-8.

    AbstractWe 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.Copyright © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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