Congenital deficiency of the pericardium is a rare anomaly which is not mentioned in standard surgical textbooks. Rarer still is the association of this defect with a bronchogenic cyst. I have found only three references to it in the literature; one by Rusby and Sellors (1945), the second by Hamilton (1961), and the third one was a sequestrated lung cyst in a patient reported by Warner, Britt, ...

Bronchogenic cysts arise from abnormal buds from the primitive esophagus and tracheobronchial tree, which do not extend to the site where alveolar differentiation occurs. Bronchogenic cysts are typically unilocular mucus field lesions arising from posterior membranous wall of the air way. The prenatal diagnosis usually is realized by two-dimensional ultrasound showing the large unilocular cysti...

Bronchogenic cysts are benign congenital aberrations belonging to the spectrum of digestive duplications. Intrathoracic forms are the most common and are essentially mediastinal along the tracheobronchial axis in 2/3 of the cases, but can also occur in the lung, pericardium and diaphragm. They are characterized by clinical and radiological polymorphism and pose a differential diagnosis with oth...

Bronchogenic cysts are generally detected shortly after birth or in early childhood. Most lesions are found in the mediastinum, along the tracheobronchial tree or in the lung parenchyma. Cutaneous or subcutaneous bronchogenic cysts are rarely reported. Our patient was the second case in the English literature who had a cyst over the manubrium sterni in adult life. Surgical total excision is the...

Congenital bronchogenic cysts of the lung and mediastinum develop from the ventral foregut during embryogenesis. Bronchogenic cysts are seldom seen in the adults and most are thought to be asymptomatic and free of complications unless they become infected or are large enough to cause pressure on contiguous vital structures such as the tracheal carina, the lung or the esophagus. We present the u...

A case of mediastinal thoracic duct cyst is described; it is believed to be the first to be reported in Britain. Five surgically treated cases have been reported but in none was the diagnosis made before operation. Symptoms are caused by pressure of the cyst on the trachea and oesophagus and my be aggravted by eating a fatty meal. Differential diagnosis from other mediastinal tumours, especiall...

Bronchogenic cysts arise from abnormal budding of the ventral diverticulum of the foregut or tracheobronchial tree during embryogenesis, are the most common cystic masses in the mediastinum, and are generally asymptomatic. A spontaneous regression in a mediastinal bronchogenic cyst (MBC) with pneumonia is rare. A 30-year-old male had a tumor shadow in the middle mediastinum. When he visited our...

Bronchogenic cysts comprise approximately 6% of mediastinal tumors in children. The treatment consists in surgical resection of the cyst. The authors present the case of a 17-year-old girl who was accidentally diagnosed with a mediastinal cyst. The patient was successfully treated with thoracoscopic surgery with good early and late clinical outcomes.

Ultrasonogram revealed cystic lesion in the right upper chest with internal echoes. Barium swallow showed a mass lesion causing smooth indentation of the esophageal outline (Fig. 1). At surgery, a cyst was identified in the posterior mediastinum, which was para-esophageal in location extending into the superior mediastinum. After excision, clinical improvement was rapid and child is well 8 mont...