Intrathoracic meningocele presenting as a mediastinal mass lesion. Case report.
A routine chest X-ray in a 52-year-old man revealed a widening of the posterosuperior mediastinum and the patient was hospitalized on the suspicion of having a mediastinal mass lesion. Further investigations revealed an anterior cervicothoracic meningocele (intrathoracic meningocele), the dural herniation passing through two large midline congenital openings of the C7-T3 vertebral bodies which appeared partially fused and associated with other regional skeletal malformations.
Maldonado
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RG
Division of Neurology, Hospital Universitario San Cecilio, Granada/Spain.
Extremera
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BG
Alegre
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Vara Thorbeck
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D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008588:Meningocele / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009192:Myelography; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed