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An extremely rare presentation is the involvement of the mediastinum leading to vocal fold paralysis, with only 2 reported cases in the literature. This report presents the youngest patient to whom this pathology has been described and the third overall patient. In this case report, we present a 15-year-old boy with vocal fold paralysis secondary to left recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis in the setting of confirmed histoplasmosis infection. On further workup, he was noted to have mediastinum lymphadenopathy on computed tomography (CT) chest. Pathology of the biopsy indicated granulomatous inflammation without the evidence of malignancy, prompting fungal serology testing resulting in a positive histoplasma antibody result. The patient received appropriate treatment, yet the dysphonia persisted. On flexible laryngoscopy, he was noted to have left vocal fold paralysis. 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