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Hematoma/etiology , Lung Diseases/etiology , Thoracic Injuries/complications , Adult , Child , Child, Preschool , Disease Progression , Female , Hematoma/surgery , Humans , Lung Diseases/surgery , Male , Prognosis , Radiography, Thoracic , Risk Assessment , Rupture/diagnosis , Rupture/surgery , Survival Rate , Thoracic Injuries/diagnosis , Thoracic Injuries/surgery , Thoracic Surgical Procedures/methods , Time Factors , Tomography, X-Ray Computed , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
We present a case of a 6 year-old boy who presented with a huge mass in the right side of the neck and changes its size with respiration and with straining. Computed tomography of the chest and neck showed a huge mass that was thought to be cystic hygroma. It was excised by both median sternotomy and a right cervical incision. Pathology revealed a thymic cyst.
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A 33-year-old female had a left sided chest pain for the last 3 months. Chest X-ray showed a left basal opacity. Computed tomography chest suggested a left sided subpulmonic effusion (17.5x12.2x13 cm) with thick enhanced walls with marked collapse of the left lower lobe and displacement of the heart and mediastinum to the right side. Trial of thoracocentesis was done and it was positive. Trial of intercostal tube insertion was done with a sense of very thick pleura and the patient developed a vasovagal attack. Accordingly, exploratory thoracotomy was decided. Intraoperative assessment showed a huge anterosuperior mediastinal cyst attached to the pericardium and was successfully resected. The pathological findings were compatible with epidermoid cyst.
