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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References
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OLGU SUNUMU: PERİKARDAİYAL KİSTİ TAKLİT EDEN DEV BİR TİMİK KİSTİN UNİPORTAL VİDEO YARDIMLI TORAKOSKOPİK EKSİZYONU
Abstract
Mediastinal kistler genellikle beningdir. Ancak kesin tanının konulabilmesi ve bası semptomlarını önlemek için cerrahi tedavi gerektirebilirler. Mediastinal kistlerin ayırıcı tanısında bazan radyolojik görüntüleme sınırlı tanısal değere sahip olabilir. Perikardiyal kistler, bening lezyonlardır ve aşırı büyüklüğe ulaşmadıkları sürece cerrahi tedavi gerektirmezler. Timik kistler ise nadiren de olsa malign dejenerasyon gösterebileceklerinden cerrahi olarak çıkarılmalıdırlar. Bu makalede radyolojik olarak perikardiyal kisti taklit eden ve ekstrem boyutlara ulaşmış bir timik kist olgusunu sunduk
Keywords
References
- 1. Amanotidou V, Mavrokosta M, Kourtesis A, Azariadis P, Tsilimigahi A. Cervicomediastinal Tyymic Cyst-Report of a Case. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2008;56:177-78.
- 2. Nguyen Q., Tar M., Wells W et al. Cervical thymic cyst: case reports and review of the literature. Laryngoscope 1996;106:247-52.
- 3. Kelley DJ., Gerber ME. Willging JP. Cervicomediastinal thymic cysts. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol 1997;39:139-46.
- 4. Petropolulos I., Konstantinidis I., Noussious G., Karagiannidis K., Kontzoglou G. Thymic cysts in the differential diagnosis of pediatric cervical masses. B-ENT 2006;2:35-37.
- 5. Strollo DC. Rosado de Christenson ML., Jett JR. Primary mediastinal tumors. Part 1. Tumors of anterior mediastinum. Chest 1997;112:511-22.
- 6. Leong AS, Brown JH. Malignant transformation in a thymic cyst. Am J Surg Pathol. 1984; 8: 471-5.
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| Primary Language | English |
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| Journal Section | Case Report |
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| Publication Date | December 1, 2015 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2015Issue: 4 |