A newborn infant with intrathoracic mass: Answers

Abstract

The patient’s lesion in the lung did not respond to antibiotic treatment, which eliminated pneumonia or atelectasis. Diaphragmatic hernia, teratoma, mediastinal neuroblastoma, intra- or extralobar pulmonary sequestration, broncho-foregut malformations, such as cystic adenomatoid malformation or bronchogenic cysts, and intrathoracic kidney can cause this X-ray appearance, and these pathologies should be considered in the differential diagnosis