id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_bywjr2rfjrgehhulshxqub5qpm Mauricio A. Palau Vitamin K Deficiency Presenting in an Infant with an Anterior Mediastinal Mass: A Case Report and Review of the Literature 2017 5 .pdf application/pdf 3837 323 52 Vitamin K Deficiency Presenting in an Infant with an Anterior Mediastinal Mass: A Case Report and Review of the Literature Vitamin K Deficiency Presenting in an Infant with an Anterior Mediastinal Mass: A Case Report and Review of the Literature We report a case of a 1-month-old infant with spontaneous thymic hemorrhage secondary to severe vitamin K deficiency. The coagulopathy resolved with administration of vitamin K, and a biopsy confirmed the anterior mediastinal patient's tissue was consistent with normal thymic ultrastructure with Hassall's corpuscles noted and slightly increased in Our literature review identified four case reports of neonatal thymic hemorrhage [13–16]. While the differential diagnosis included spontaneous hemorrhage into normal thymic tissue, malignancy or vitamin K Anterior mediastinal masses in neonates and infants from the field: late vitamin K deficiency bleeding in infants "Ultrasound diagnosis of thymic hemorrhage in an infant with ./cache/work_bywjr2rfjrgehhulshxqub5qpm.pdf ./txt/work_bywjr2rfjrgehhulshxqub5qpm.txt