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

Number: 4 December 1, 2015
  • Suha Alzafer
  • Erdal Okur
  • Semih Halezeroğlu
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Case Report: Uniportal Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Excision of a Giant Thymic Cyst Mimicking a Pericardial Cyst

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

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Suha Alzafer

Erdal Okur

Semih Halezeroğlu

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December 1, 2015

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Year 1970 Number: 4

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Alzafer S, Okur E, Halezeroğlu S (December 1, 2015) Case Report: Uniportal Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Excision of a Giant Thymic Cyst Mimicking a Pericardial Cyst. Acıbadem Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Dergisi 4 220–222.