Thymic bleeding after blunt chest trauma in a child

Ayşe Murat Aydın; Akın Eraslan Balcı; Yaşar Birişik; İbrahim Hanifi Özercan; Mehmet Saraç

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2015.10200

Ayşe Murat Aydın¹, Akın Eraslan Balcı², Yaşar Birişik¹, İbrahim Hanifi Özercan³, Mehmet Saraç⁴

¹Departments of Radiology, Medical Faculty of Fırat University, Elazığ, Turkey
²Departments of Thoracic Surgery, Medical Faculty of Fırat University, Elazığ, Turkey
³Departments of Pathology, Medical Faculty of Fırat University, Elazığ, Turkey
⁴Departments of Pediatric Surgery, Medical Faculty of Fırat University, Elazığ, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2015.10200

Trauma to the pediatric chest, occurring in isolation or with polytrauma, may result in a variety of injuries from minor to life-threatening. Trauma is the first cause of mortality in children over the age of one in industrialized countries. Injury to the thymus and thymic blood vessels is described in rare cases. A nine-year-old male patient was admitted to the emergency department after a traffic accident. The patient was followed up in the pediatric surgery intensive care unit due to the life-threatening condition. Patient had mediastinal widening due to blunt chest trauma. Contrast-enhanced chest computed tomography revealed mediastinal hematoma. A diagnosis of thymic bleeding was established in the operation.

Keywords : Chest trauma; child; imaging; thymic bleeding

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