title: CT findings of an intracardiac bronchogenic cyst.
abstract: Bronchogenic cysts are classified as congenital bronchopulmonary foregut malformations. It is very rare for bronchogenic cysts to occur within the heart. A 59-year-old woman had a cardiac mass which was detected incidentally during a CT examination. The lesion was a hypoechoic mass with internal echoes on transthoracic echocardiography, and a well-defined hyperdense mass within an interatrial septum with poor enhancement on electrocardiography (ECG)-gated cardiac CT. The lesion was diagnosed as a bronchogenic cyst in the interatrial septum after surgical excision.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology and Research Institution of Radiology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, 86 Asanbyeongwon-gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul 138-736, South Korea.
authors.forename: Nieun
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Seo
authors.forename: Joon-Won
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: Chae-Hun
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Bohyun
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Hyun Joo
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Tae-Hwan
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Lim
mesh_terms: D054087:Atrial Septum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001994:Bronchogenic Cyst / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D055424:Cardiac-Gated Imaging Techniques; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D033162:Incidental Findings; D008875:Middle Aged; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography