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[A new case of pericardial thymic cyst]
G Monnier1, S Guerard, P Godon
1Service de pathologie cardiovasculaire, hôpital d'instruction des armées Desgenettes, Lyon.
Archives Des Maladies Du Coeur Et Des Vaisseaux
|September 7, 2000
Abstract:
The thymic cysts are benign tumours of the thymo-pharyngeal canal, usually located in the cervico-mediastinal region. The authors report the case of a large thymic cyst with an ectopic right paracardiac location compressing the right heart chambers. It was a chance finding on chest X-ray of an asymptomatic 21 year old man. Though suggestive of a pericardial cyst in view of its position, curative surgical ablation allowed confirmation of the diagnosis at anatomo-pathological examination.