title: Massive thymic hyperplasia in infants.
abstract: Report of a case of massive thymic hyperplasia in a 7-month-old female infant causing a respiratory distress syndrome by displacement and compression of the bronchopulmonary system. Steroid therapy and ventilation were ineffective. Thymectomy had to be performed because of severe respiratory distress. In a review of the literature we did not find any report on a similar case.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010784:Photomicrography; D011859:Radiography; D012127:Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn / Q000209:etiology; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000473:pathology; D013952:Thymus Hyperplasia / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery