title: CT diagnosis of congenital intrapericardial masses.
abstract: Prior to the development of CT, cardiac and pericardiac masses were evaluated by chest roentgenography, angiocardiography, and echocardiography. In most cases preoperative diagnosis of a specific entity was impossible. Preoperative CT diagnosis of an intrapericardial developmental mass becomes possible because of the presence of fat, fat/fluid level, thick walled cysts, as well as globular calcifications, bones, teeth, water density fluid, and soft tissue. A report of a young woman with a ruptured and infected intrapericardial teratoma and an infant with an intrapericardial bronchial cyst is presented.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003560:Cysts / Q000151:congenital* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003884:Dermoid Cyst / Q000151:congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010496:Pericardium / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed