Huge Mediastinal Thymic Cyst in the Elderly Patient

Mediastinal thymic cysts are uncommon lesions. Thymic cysts are usually diagnosed incidentally, and their origin could be congenital or acquired. Herein we present the case of a patient who presented with dyspnea. Chest computerized scan showed a large cystic mass. Surgical excision was performed. P...

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Autores principales: Shakerian, Behnam, Mandegar, Mohammad Hossein
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7147534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32284915
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7240
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description Mediastinal thymic cysts are uncommon lesions. Thymic cysts are usually diagnosed incidentally, and their origin could be congenital or acquired. Herein we present the case of a patient who presented with dyspnea. Chest computerized scan showed a large cystic mass. Surgical excision was performed. Pathology findings were consistent with congenital thymic cyst.
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spelling pubmed-71475342020-04-13 Huge Mediastinal Thymic Cyst in the Elderly Patient Shakerian, Behnam Mandegar, Mohammad Hossein Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Mediastinal thymic cysts are uncommon lesions. Thymic cysts are usually diagnosed incidentally, and their origin could be congenital or acquired. Herein we present the case of a patient who presented with dyspnea. Chest computerized scan showed a large cystic mass. Surgical excision was performed. Pathology findings were consistent with congenital thymic cyst. Cureus 2020-03-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7147534/ /pubmed/32284915 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7240 Text en Copyright © 2020, Shakerian et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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title_short Huge Mediastinal Thymic Cyst in the Elderly Patient
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topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7147534/
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