The Key Role of Lung Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of a Mature Cystic Teratoma in a Child with Suspected Difficult to Treat Pneumonia: A Case Report

Elio Iovine; Laura Petrarca; Domenico Paolo La Regina; Luigi Matera; Enrica Mancino; Greta Di Mattia; Fabio Midulla; Raffaella Nenna

doi:10.3390/children9040555

The Key Role of Lung Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of a Mature Cystic Teratoma in a Child with Suspected Difficult to Treat Pneumonia: A Case Report

Children (Basel). 2022 Apr 13;9(4):555. doi: 10.3390/children9040555.

Authors

Elio Iovine¹, Laura Petrarca¹, Domenico Paolo La Regina¹, Luigi Matera¹, Enrica Mancino¹, Greta Di Mattia¹, Fabio Midulla¹, Raffaella Nenna¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Maternal Infantile and Urological Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, 00161 Rome, Italy.

Abstract

To date, the diagnosis of mediastinal teratoma and mediastinal masses relies on the use of chest X-ray and CT. Lung and thoracic ultrasound is becoming increasingly used in the diagnosis and follow-up of many lung and thoracic diseases. Here, we report the case of a mature cystic teratoma in which the performance of lung ultrasound allowed to speed up the diagnostic workup and to provide the indication for the execution of CT of the thorax allowing the diagnosis.

Keywords: lung ultrasound; mediastinal masses; mediastinal teratoma.

Publication types

Case Reports