Case Report of Pediatric Empyema Necessitans Misdiagnosed as Malignancy

A 2026 case report authored by Ariane Gérard details an eight-year-old girl presenting with a tumor-like chest mass. The report describes a multidisciplinary diagnostic approach, including pre-surgery cultures and surgical specimen analysis, which identified an Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans infection. The patient received 8 weeks of antibiotic therapy, leading to complete resolution.

Use Cases

• Analyzing diagnostic pathways for chest masses based on the described multidisciplinary approach
• Studying treatment outcomes for empyema necessitans based on the 8-week antibiotic regimen
• Reviewing literature on pediatric Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans infections based on the included review

Strengths

• Detailed clinical narrative of a single pediatric case
• Includes a review of published literature on the topic
• Licensed under CC-BY-4.0 for open sharing

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Case report and literature review authored by Ariane Gérard

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-29 05:57:21