A 44-Year-Old Man With Chronic Cough, Weakness, and a Mediastinum Mass.
A 44-year-old white man presented with a 3-month history of dry cough and weakness. He had already been treated with antibiotics without any relief. He did not report dyspnea, fever, or expectoration. The patient's medical history was significant for mild arterial hypertension and autoimmune thyroiditis with normal thyroid hormone levels. He was a nonsmoker and had been in excellent health until symptom onset.
Pulmonary Department, Agios Savvas Anticancer-Oncology Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Dimitrios
D
Theofilos
Pulmonary Department, Agios Savvas Anticancer-Oncology Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece; 6th Pulmonary Department, Sotiria General Hospital of Chest Diseases, Athens, Greece. Electronic address: xristina.triantafyllidou@gmail.com.
Christina
C
Triantafillidou
Pulmonary Department, Agios Savvas Anticancer-Oncology Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Athanasios
A
Zetos
Pulmonary Department, Agios Savvas Anticancer-Oncology Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Danai
D
Bisirtzoglou
Internal Medicine Department, Sotiria General Hospital of Chest Diseases, Athens, Greece.
Froso
F
Konstantinou
Pulmonary Department, Agios Savvas Anticancer-Oncology Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Charalampos
C
Marketos
Pulmonary Department, Agios Savvas Anticancer-Oncology Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Georgios
G
Politis
D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D003371:Cough; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005938:Glucocorticoids / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D008480:Mediastinitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000276:immunology* / Q000473:pathology; D018908:Muscle Weakness; D011239:Prednisolone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D005938:Glucocorticoids; D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D011239:Prednisolone