An unusual enlarged thymus

We describe the case of a 22-month-old boy attending a follow-up visit at our paediatric pulmonology outpatient clinic. At 30 weeks' gestational age, fetal ultrasonography had suggested malformation of the upper lobe of the left lung. He was born at term by caesarean section and physiologically adapted to extrauterine life. CT at birth showed extended dishomogeneous consolidation in the upper lobe of …

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