title: Mediastinal parathyroid cyst: treatment with thoracoscopic surgery--a case report.
abstract: Parathyroid cysts are rarely located in the mediastinum. This report describes a 45-year-old man with a mediastinal parathyroid cyst. Video-assisted thoracic surgery was successfully performed to remove the cyst.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery 2, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Oyama
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Imoto
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yasumoto
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Toyoshima
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nagashima
mesh_terms: D003560:Cysts / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008477:Mediastinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010279:Parathyroid Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome