{"title":"A rare case of thymic hyperplasia in a 6-month-old HIV-exposed infant with signs of airway compression","authors":"Alemayehu Mekonnen Gezmu","doi":"10.4103/ajmhs.ajmhs_24_17","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This is report of a rare case of thymic hyperplasia in a 6-month-old female child with significant compression effect on the airways and shift of the mediastinum. Timely imaging study and tissue biopsy play an important role in identifying cause of anterior mediastinal mass in this age group.","PeriodicalId":93249,"journal":{"name":"African journal of medical and health sciences","volume":"8 1","pages":"120 - 122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"African journal of medical and health sciences","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4103/ajmhs.ajmhs_24_17","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This is report of a rare case of thymic hyperplasia in a 6-month-old female child with significant compression effect on the airways and shift of the mediastinum. Timely imaging study and tissue biopsy play an important role in identifying cause of anterior mediastinal mass in this age group.