A 51-Year-Old Man With a Large Posterior Mediastinal Mass

Chest. 2021 Oct;160(4):e357-e363. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2021.04.058.

Abstract

A 51-year-old White male never-smoker presented with intermittent cough and progressive dyspnea. His symptoms started after an exposure to bat guano while cleaning his attic approximately 9 months earlier. He has received several courses of antibiotic and corticosteroid for these symptoms, with short-term relief.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cough / physiopathology
  • Cytoreduction Surgical Procedures
  • Decompression, Surgical
  • Disease Progression
  • Dyspnea / physiopathology
  • Forced Expiratory Volume
  • Fractures, Compression / diagnostic imaging
  • Fractures, Compression / etiology
  • Fractures, Compression / surgery
  • Hodgkin Disease / complications
  • Hodgkin Disease / diagnosis*
  • Hodgkin Disease / pathology
  • Hodgkin Disease / physiopathology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mediastinal Neoplasms / complications
  • Mediastinal Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Mediastinal Neoplasms / pathology
  • Mediastinal Neoplasms / physiopathology
  • Mediastinitis / complications
  • Mediastinitis / diagnosis*
  • Mediastinitis / drug therapy
  • Mediastinitis / physiopathology
  • Middle Aged
  • Prednisone / therapeutic use
  • Rituximab / therapeutic use
  • Spinal Fractures / diagnostic imaging
  • Spinal Fractures / etiology
  • Spinal Fractures / surgery
  • Thoracic Vertebrae / diagnostic imaging
  • Thoracic Vertebrae / surgery
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Vital Capacity

Substances

  • Rituximab
  • Prednisone