title: Mediastinal parathyroid cyst.
abstract: Computed tomography (CT) accurately demonstrated the cystic nature of a superior mediastinal mass, which was confirmed at thoracotomy to be a parathyroid cyst. To our knowledge this is the only case of a mediastinal parathyroid cyst characterized preoperatively by CT.
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D005756:Gastritis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005758:Gastritis, Hypertrophic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D006984:Hypertrophy; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013270:Stomach / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed