title: Pericardial cyst in a child treated with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.
abstract: A pericardial cyst is a rare condition in childhood. We report on a 10-year-old girl who presented with an intrathoracic mass detected on a chest X-ray performed during a routine medical examination. She had no symptoms and a physical examination revealed no abnormalities. Ultrasonography, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging showed a multiloculated cystic mass in the right upper thorax. The cyst was resected using a thoracoscopic procedure. Histologically, the findings were consistent with a pericardial cyst. Thoracoscopic surgery was an effective surgical technique even for such a young patient and the results successfully reduced the morbidity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A pericardial cyst, a rare condition in childhood, was treated successfully by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatric Surgery, Kitakyushu Municipal Medical Centre, Japan.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Eto
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Arima
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nagashima
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008476:Mediastinal Cyst / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted