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A patient with weakness and an abnormal chest radiograph: A case report

A Van Straaten, JA Shaw, C Koegelenberg

Abstract


A 40-year-old black male presented to ICU after intubation for airway protection due to rapid onset of neck weakness and swallowing difficulty. His chest radiograph showed an unusual mediastinal opacity for which a computer tomography (CT) scan was done, confirming a mediastinal mass.


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A Van Straaten, Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine, Tygerberg Academic Hospital and Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

JA Shaw, Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine, Tygerberg Academic Hospital and Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

C Koegelenberg, Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine, Tygerberg Academic Hospital and Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

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African Journal of Thoracic and Critical Care Medicine 2018;24(1):8-10. DOI:10.7196/SARJ.2018.v24i1.183

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Date submitted: 2018-03-28
Date published: 2018-04-03

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