10.25373/ctsnet.7973681.v1
Mundayat Gopalakrishnan
Mundayat
Gopalakrishnan
Excision of a Pleuropericardial Cyst
CTSNet
2019
Thoracic
Mediastinum
Cysts
Surgery
2019-04-16 17:21:50
Media
https://ctsnet.figshare.com/articles/media/Excision_of_a_Pleuropericardial_Cyst/7973681
An 80-year-old woman was diagnosed with a huge anterior and middle mediastinal cyst that was causing compression of the right atrium and ventricle. Computed tomography of the thorax and transthoracic echocardiography confirmed the diagnosis. She underwent complete excision of the cyst through a median sternotomy. She made an uneventful recovery and was discharged from the hospital in six days.