Clinics in diagnostic imaging (86). Ruptured bronchogenic cyst.

Abstract

An eight-year-old boy presented with a sudden onset of chest pain. He had been diagnosed to have a left spontaneous pneumothorax. Chest radiographs and computed tomography of the chest showed a thin-walled cyst in the left lower lobe. Thoracotomy and a segmentectomy of the apical segment of the lower lobe was performed, confirming the diagnosis of a ruptured bronchogenic cyst. Imaging findings of various pulmonary cystic lesions in children are discussed.

• Authors: P Visrutaratna, J Euathrongchit, V Kattipattanapong
• Journal: Singapore medical journal (Singapore Med J) Vol. 44 Issue 6 Pg. 325-9 (Jun 2003) ISSN: 0037-5675 [Print] India
• PMID: 14560868 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Topics

• Bronchogenic Cyst (congenital, diagnosis, pathology)
• Chest Pain (diagnosis, etiology)
• Child
• Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation of Lung, Congenital (diagnosis, pathology)
• Diagnosis, Differential
• Humans
• Male
• Pneumothorax (congenital, diagnosis, pathology)
• Radiography, Thoracic
• Rupture, Spontaneous (diagnosis)
• Thoracotomy
• Tomography, X-Ray Computed