title: Bilateral intrathoracic meningoceles.
abstract: Bilateral intrathoracic meningoceles are reported in a 22-year-old man with a family history of neurofibromatosis. Clinical evaluation and conventional radiography are inadequate to differentiate intrathoracic meningocele from other posterior mediastinal masses, especially dumbbell neurofibroma. Myelography is the diagnostic procedure of choice.
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008588:Meningocele / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011859:Radiography; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging