Subject: mediastinal cyst
Subject: thymic cyst
Subject: surgical treatment
Year: 2017
Type: Article
Title: Giant mediastinal thymic cyst
Author: Goran Kondov
Author: Borislav Kondov
Author: Marija Jovanovska Srceva
Author: Goge Damjanovski
Author: Imran Ferati
Author: Ivan Karapetrov
Author: Irena Kondova Topuzovska
Author: Nikolina Tanovska
Author: Anita Kokareva
Abstract: The authors present a rare case of giant mediastinal cyst which arises from the thymus gland, and goes down in both pleural spaces, especially in the right chest cavity where a dominant part of the cyst was present. The cyst was full with 2.5 liters of transparent fluid, and compressed surrounding structures – heart and both lungs, especially the right one which was partially collapsed. The patient was a 52 years old woman, without any clinical symptoms. Accidentally, on the screened chest X-ray a shading in the distal third of the right chest was detected. The case was well documented with a CT of the chest, and an indication for surgical treatment was made. The surgery was done successfully in general anesthesia according to the small right anterior thoracotomy from which a giant part of the cyst was mobilized, which was in the right pleural cavity, but, also, the thymus with the origin of the cyst in the anterior and superior mediastinum was completely removed. In the end, a part of the cyst which was in the left pleural cavity was removed.
Publisher: Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Relation: Prilozi (Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite. Oddelenie za medicinski nauki)
Identifier: oai:repository.ukim.mk:20.500.12188/9367
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/9367Identifier: http://manu.edu.mk/prilozi/38_2/16.pdfIdentifier: 38
Identifier: 2
