title: Clinics in diagnostic imaging (86). Ruptured bronchogenic cyst.
abstract: An eight-year-old boy presented with a sudden onset of chest pain. He had been diagnosed to have a left spontaneous pneumothorax. Chest radiographs and computed tomography of the chest showed a thin-walled cyst in the left lower lobe. Thoracotomy and a segmentectomy of the apical segment of the lower lobe was performed, confirming the diagnosis of a ruptured bronchogenic cyst. Imaging findings of various pulmonary cystic lesions in children are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand. pvisruta@mail.med.cmu.ac.th
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Visrutaratna
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Euathrongchit
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kattipattanapong
mesh_terms: D001994:Bronchogenic Cyst / Q000151:congenital / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D002648:Child; D015615:Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation of Lung, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011030:Pneumothorax / Q000151:congenital / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013908:Thoracotomy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed