A 51-Year-Old Woman With a Mediastinal Mass.

Abstract

A 51-year-old woman with a medical history of poorly controlled type 1 diabetes mellitus, hyperthyroidism, and tobacco abuse was admitted to the hospital with persistent nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort, dry cough, rhinorrhea, and sore throat. She denied fevers, chills, rigors, shortness of breath, hemoptysis, nasal congestion, postnasal drip, and facial pain. She denied any sick contacts, and there was no recent travel outside of Chicago.