Case Report
22 Year Old Female with Worsening Dyspnea
| Michael L O’Neill*, Frank Kuo, Andre Pinto and Gaurav Saigal | |
| Department of Radiology, Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami FL, USA | |
| Corresponding Author : | Michael Lancaster O’Neill Jackson Memorial Hospital Department of Radiology University of Miami Miller School of Medicine 1611 NW 12th Avenue Miami, FL 33136, USA E-mail: MONeill2@med.miami.edu |
| Received May 30, 2013; Accepted June 13, 2013; Published June 18, 2013 | |
| Citation: O’Neill ML, Kuo F, Pinto A, Saigal G (2013) 22 Year Old Female with Worsening Dyspnea. OMICS J Radiology 2:131. doi: 10.4172/2167-7964.1000131 | |
| Copyright: © 2013 O’Neill ML, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
Abstract
The differential diagnosis for mediastinal tumors is broad and includes neurogenic tumor, germ cell tumor, thymoma,
lymphoma, sarcoma, metastasis and more. We report a patient with a dramatic presentation of neuroblastoma in the
mediastinal, a relatively uncommon location for this tumor in patient of any age and particularly in the age group of our
patient. The considerable worst prognosis for older patients with neuroblastoma, a high index of suspicion is necessary
to avoid unnecessary delays in the diagnosis. Here we describe the imaging and laboratory findings of mediastinal
neuroblastoma.
