Mediastinal esophageal cyst causing unilateral hyperlucent lung.
Unilateral emphysema secondary to bronchial obstruction by a foregut-derived mediastinal cyst is rare. Here we describe an infant with a unilateral hyperlucent lung due to compression on the left main bronchus by an esophageal cyst, visualized by chest computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. A chest roentgenogram and a perfusion scan presented the normalized left lung after resection of the cyst.
Fukumoto
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Second Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima, Japan.
Uyama
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T
Sakiyama
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S
Kondo
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K
Monden
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Y
D004934:Esophageal Cyst / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D019568:Lung, Hyperlucent / Q000209:etiology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed