Case 25-2015: An 8-year-old girl with a chest-wall mass and a pleural effusion

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 373, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 657-667

  Moskowitz, Samuel M ^a,b   Shailam, Randheer ^a,b   Mark, Eugene J ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARACETAMOL;

ACTINOMYCOSIS; AGGREGATIBACTER ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; CHEST ASYMMETRY; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENTAL CARIES; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG ASPIRATION; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG INFECTION; OXYGEN SATURATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SNORING; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; STRIDOR; THORAX CANCER; THORAX DISEASE; THORAX INJURY; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX WALL TUMOR; TRACHEA DISEASE; TRACHEAL CUTANEOUS FISTULA; TRACHEOBRONCHITIS; TRACHEOSTOMY; ACTINOMYCES; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COMPLICATION; EMPYEMA; INFLAMMATION; INJURIES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEOPLASMS; PASTEURELLACEAE INFECTION; PATHOLOGY; PLEURAL EFFUSION; RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX WALL; TRACHEA; TRACHEITIS;

ACTINOMYCES; ACTINOMYCOSIS; AGGREGATIBACTER ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; NEOPLASMS; PASTEURELLACEAE INFECTIONS; PLEURAL EFFUSION; THORACIC WALL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRACHEA; TRACHEITIS; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 84941710093     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1400836     Document Type: Article

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