Mediastinal teratoma causing life-threatening hemoptysis. Its occurrence in an infant.
An 8-month-old infant girl with an anterior mediastinal teratoma experienced the unusual symptom of life-threatening hemoptysis secondary to ulceration of the tumor's gastric mucosa into the lung parenchyma.
D005260:Female; D006469:Hemoptysis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D013724:Teratoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology