Cardiac compression by a thymic cyst.
A patient with a giant thymic cyst, causing cardiac compression, is presented. Thymic cysts are uncommon and often asymptomatic.
Stas
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Declercq
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Van Raemdonck
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D
Dubois
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C
Desmet
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W
D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008476:Mediastinal Cyst / Q000150:complications* / Q000151:congenital / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D013906:Thoracoscopy; D014683:Vena Cava, Superior / Q000503:physiopathology