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Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg
; 19(2): 311-2, 2014 Aug.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-24729202
ABSTRACT
Bronchogenic cysts arise from an abnormal budding of the ventral diverticulum of the foregut or the tracheobronchial tree, during embryogenesis. Intrapericardial cysts are rare, accounting for 27% of bronchogenic cysts. In this case report, we present a young woman with a symptomatic intrapericardial bronchogenic cyst compressing the superior vena cava. The cyst was resected via median sternotomy, alleviating the patients' preoperative symptoms.