PURPOSE To review our institutional surgical outcomes with primary mediastinal cysts (PMCs) and elucidate the clinicopathological differences among several histological PMC variants. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 108 patients who underwent surgery for PMC at our institution between 1997 and 2012. RESULTS There were 54 thymic cysts (TCs), 26 bronchogenic cysts (BCs), 16 mature cystic t...

Benign esophageal lesions occur in various diseases. Barium studies are useful for the evaluation of mucosal surface lesions but provide little information about the extramucosal extent of disease. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, on the other hand, permit the assessment of wall thickness, mediastinal involvement, adjacent lymphadenopathy, and distant spread. In diseases such...

Esophageal bronchogenic cysts are extremely rare. Here we report a more rare type of both presence of intra- and paraesophageal bronchogenic cyst that was safely removed via surgical resection. A 31-year-old male patient with space-occupying lesions in the mediastinum suddenly presented with persistent chest pain for 2 days and then transferred to dysphagia >1 week. Preoperative diagnosis is di...

In the past decade, advances in anesthesiology, antibiotics, preand post-operative care and surgical technique have greatly increased the scope of thoracic surgery. Among those profiting by these advances, is the individual suffering from esophageal obstruction. Recently reported benign lesions producing esophageal obstruction indude acylasia, chemical obstruction, congenital obstruction, webs,...

intraosseous ganglia can affect the carpal bones of the hand and must be considered in the differential diagnosis of wrist pain. a 38-year-old female presented with a 14-month history of left wrist pain and a radiolucent cystic lesion was seen computed tomography (ct) scanning. characteristic radiographic findings of a cyst in association with a fine sclerotic rim was apparent. we report an unu...

Lesions occur in hepatogastric gap is common, but most of these lesions are from stomach, lower esophagus and pancreas lesions extending or transferring to the gap. Lesions occurred in the hepatogastric ligament are rare, especially bronchogenic cysts in the hepatogastric ligament. So far, there were no relevant cases reported. Here, we report a case of bronchogenic cyst in the hepatogastric li...

gastroduodenoscopy as part of a general checkup at a private clinic, and was referred to our hospital with a suspected submucosal tumor of the esophagus. The patient had no symptoms and was in good health except that he was taking aspirin for angina pectoris, although he had not experienced any cardiac events in the past 6 years. On physical examination, the abdomen was flat and soft. Laborator...