الملخص الإنجليزي
Superior mediastinal syndrome is a life-threatening pediatric oncological emergency
that requires high level of awareness and clinical suspicion to avoid misdiagnosis and
devastating outcomes. Early diagnostic evaluation and management of underlying
etiology are of utmost significance for optimal results. In children, it is most commonly
caused by non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and T-cell lymphoblastic leukemia. We report
a case of a six-year-old boy with superior mediastinal syndrome secondary to T-cell
acute lymphoblastic leukemia, initially misdiagnosed as foreign body aspiration and
underwent a procedure with a life-threatening outcome
