Case report: Epidermoid cyst misdiagnosed as a loculated pericardial effusion

A 25-year old man presented with a mediastinal lesion which was initially diagnosed as a loculated pericardial collection on echocardiography. Subsequent imaging showed it to be a cystic mediastinal mass, and following surgery and histopathology, it turned out to be an epidermoid cyst.

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Autores principales: Sharma, NC, Sharma, Anshu, Bajaj, Manish
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
Materias:
Chest Radiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2747452/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19774191
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.40956
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spelling pubmed-27474522009-09-22 Case report: Epidermoid cyst misdiagnosed as a loculated pericardial effusion Sharma, NC Sharma, Anshu Bajaj, Manish Indian J Radiol Imaging Chest Radiology A 25-year old man presented with a mediastinal lesion which was initially diagnosed as a loculated pericardial collection on echocardiography. Subsequent imaging showed it to be a cystic mediastinal mass, and following surgery and histopathology, it turned out to be an epidermoid cyst. Medknow Publications 2008-11 /pmc/articles/PMC2747452/ /pubmed/19774191 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.40956 Text en © Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Chest Radiology
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Sharma, Anshu
Bajaj, Manish
Case report: Epidermoid cyst misdiagnosed as a loculated pericardial effusion
title Case report: Epidermoid cyst misdiagnosed as a loculated pericardial effusion
title_full Case report: Epidermoid cyst misdiagnosed as a loculated pericardial effusion
title_fullStr Case report: Epidermoid cyst misdiagnosed as a loculated pericardial effusion
title_full_unstemmed Case report: Epidermoid cyst misdiagnosed as a loculated pericardial effusion
title_short Case report: Epidermoid cyst misdiagnosed as a loculated pericardial effusion
title_sort case report: epidermoid cyst misdiagnosed as a loculated pericardial effusion
topic Chest Radiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2747452/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19774191
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.40956
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