title: Mediastinal esophageal cyst causing unilateral hyperlucent lung.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fukumoto
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Uyama
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sakiyama
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kondo
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Monden
mesh_terms: 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