Infant with a skin lesion and respiratory distress
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Infant with a skin lesion and respiratory distress
Accepted 16 February 2018 DesCripTion A 2-month-old full-term male infant presented with worsening tachypnoea and a rapidly enlarging, smooth-topped, infiltrative, bronze-yellow nodule with overlying telangiectasias on the mid-sternum (figure 1A). CT imaging demonstrated multiple pulmonary nodules, and enhancing extradural masses compressing the L4–L5 vertebral neural foramina. Immunohistochemi...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ Case Reports
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1757-790X
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2018-224506