Case Report: Uniportal Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Excision of a Giant Thymic Cyst Mimicking a Pericardial Cyst

Authors : Suha ALZAFER, Erdal OKUR, Semih HALEZEROĞLU

Pages : 220-222

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Publication Date : 2015-12-01

Article Type : Other Papers

Abstract :Most of the mediastinal cysts are benign but still needs surgical excision for a definitive diagnosis and to prevent compressive symptoms. Radiological examination itself may sometimes have limited diagnostic value. A pericardial cyst is always a benign lesion and does not need an excision unless it reaches to an extreme size while a thymic cyst should be excised when diagnosed since it may rarely show malignant degeneration. Here we present an extreme sized thymic cyst radiologically mimicking a pericardial cyst
Keywords : thymic cyst, pericardial cyst, mediastinal cysts