title: Asymptomatic congenital oesophageal cyst infiltrating the lung: an unusual complication.
abstract: An asymptomatic 14-year-old boy presented with minor chest trauma. Chest X-ray showed opacity in the upper zone of the left lung. Further investigations with magnetic resonance imaging showed it to be a posterior mediastinal mass with a fistula to the lung, along with cystic changes in the left upper lobe of lung. Left upper lobectomy with excision of the mass was performed. Histological examination later showed an oesophageal duplication cyst with a fistula to the left upper lobe of the lung. We present this unusual complication of an oesophageal cyst infiltrating the lung in an asymptomatic child.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Sciennes Road, EH9 1LF, Edinburgh, UK. moorti@hotmail.com
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sundaramoorthi
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Behranwala
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Codispoti
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Mankad
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D004934:Esophageal Cyst / Q000150:complications* / Q000151:congenital* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography