Thoracoscopic resection of a bronchogenic cyst in a 17-year-old girl.

Roksana Pułtorak Wojciech Korlacki Michał Pasierbek Andrzej Grabowski

Kardiochir Torakochirurgia Pol

Department of Children's Developmental Defects Surgery and Traumatology, School of Medicine with the Division of Dentistry in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.

Published: December 2016

Bronchogenic cysts comprise approximately 6% of mediastinal tumors in children. The treatment consists in surgical resection of the cyst. The authors present the case of a 17-year-old girl who was accidentally diagnosed with a mediastinal cyst. The patient was successfully treated with thoracoscopic surgery with good early and late clinical outcomes.

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