“…In patients without immunodeficiency diseases, mediastinal masses can be associated with neoplastic disease, including malignant lymphoma, esophageal diverticula, cysts, and goiter. Indeed, a mediastinal mass was extracted, as stated in a previous report, and CGD was diagnosed after the surgical intervention. In the present case, it was unclear how a pathogen could invade the thymus, given that blood cultures were negative.…”