title: Life threatening complications caused by bronchogenic and oesophageal duplication cysts in a child.
abstract: An 11-year-old girl presented with severe respiratory distress, fever and septic manifestations. Computed tomography scan (CT) of the chest showed 2 separate superior and posterior mediastinal cysts, the upper one causing severe extrinsic compression of the trachea, and the oesophagus, while the lower cyst was at the subcarinal region compressing the 2 major bronchi. Emergency thoracotomy was performed permitting complete resection of intra-mural oesophageal enteric cyst, and a subcarinal bronchogenic cyst. The postoperative course was uneventful.
authors.affiliation: Thoracic Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hajjar
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: El-Madany
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ashour
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Al-Kattan
mesh_terms: D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D001994:Bronchogenic Cyst / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D004934:Esophageal Cyst / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome