title: Bronchogenic cyst arising from the crus of the left hemidiaphragm.
abstract: A 34-year-old man presented with chronic worsening left-sided retrosternal chest pain. Following a negative cardiac work up he was found, on cross-sectional imaging, to have a cystic mass measuring 9.6×11.8×9 cm related to his left diaphragmatic crus. The patient underwent an exploratory laparotomy with complete resection of the cystic mass. Histopathological examination of the mass confirmed it as being a bronchogenic cyst. His pain resolved following excision of the mass and at follow-up he was asymptomatic with no evidence of recurrence on imaging.
authors.affiliation: Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
authors.forename: Maryna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chumakova
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Cwm Taf NHS Trust, Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf, UK Department of HPB Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
authors.forename: Gareth
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Morris-Stiff
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
authors.forename: Vadim
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Khachaturov
authors.affiliation: Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
authors.forename: Samuel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ibrahim
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001994:Bronchogenic Cyst / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000209:etiology; D003964:Diaphragm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007813:Laparotomy; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed