Abstract

NARCISO-DIRCIO, Eric; VALENCIA-SANCHEZ, Liliana Denisse  and  VAZQUEZ-MINERO, Juan Carlos. Unusual thymic cyst of posterior mediastinum in a patient with neurofibromatosis. Neumol. cir. torax [online]. 2020, vol.79, n.3, pp.171-175.  Epub Feb 28, 2022. ISSN 0028-3746.

Thymus tumors are the most frequent in the anterior mediastinum. Congenital mediastinal cysts occur 3 to 6%. Their posterior location is extremely rare, and therefore the clinic that accompanies them; however, it should be considered among the differential diagnoses, as is the case in the case presented below in a patient with a history of neurofibromatosis in a reference institute. This is a 53-year-old woman with a posterior mediastinal cyst, undergoing thoracotomy resection, which in the definitive pathology study was a thymic cyst, with good results and with follow-up without recurrence.

Keywords : Thymic cyst; mediastinal cyst; posterior mediastinum; neurofibromatosis cyst.

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