Giant thymolipoma in a young child initially diagnosed as cardiomegaly

Pediatr Int. 2015 Oct;57(5):1051-2. doi: 10.1111/ped.12786.

Authors

Tadashi Onoda^{1

2}, Toru Meguro¹, Miyako Kanno¹, Hiroshi Ohta³, Megumi Nakamura³, Hiroya Ohtake⁴, Tetsuo Mitsui¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan.
² Department of Pediatrics, Yamagata Prefectural Central Hospital, Yamagata, Japan.
³ Second Department of Surgery, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan.
⁴ Department of Pathology, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan.

PMID: 26508197
DOI: 10.1111/ped.12786

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Cardiomegaly / diagnosis*
Child, Preschool
Diagnosis, Differential
Diagnostic Errors*
Female
Humans
Lipoma / diagnosis*
Lipoma / surgery
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine
Radiography, Thoracic
Thymectomy
Thymus Gland / diagnostic imaging*
Thymus Gland / surgery
Thymus Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Thymus Neoplasms / surgery
Tomography, X-Ray Computed