Large mediastinal mass in a 15-year-old boy

Authors

Mariyam Gohar Ali, Aga Khan University
Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi, Aga Khan UniversityFollow
Farah Naz Qamar, Aga Khan UniversityFollow

Document Type

Report

Department

Pulmonary and Critical Care; Paediatrics and Child Health

Abstract

Hyperimmunoglobulin E syndrome is a rare multisystem inherited disorder characterised by high serum IgE levels, skin disorder causing eczema, dermatitis, recurrent staphylococcal infections and pulmonary infections and various skeletal and connective tissue abnormalities. Common presentation is with recurrent skin and sinopulmonary infections. Several features unrelated to immune system such as characteristic facial features, hyperextensibility of joints, multiple bone fractures and craniosynostosis have been described in the literature. We describe a rare presentation of this disease with invasive aspergillosis presenting as mediastinal mass with extension to mediastinalstructures and pulmonary vasculature.

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Publication (Name of Journal)

BMJ Case Reports

DOI

10.1136/bcr-2018-226074

Recommended Citation

Ali, M. G., Zubairi, A., Qamar, F. N. (2018). Large mediastinal mass in a 15-year-old boy. BMJ Case Reports, 2018, bcr2018226074.
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