Clinics in diagnostic imaging (86). Ruptured bronchogenic cyst

Singapore Med J. 2003 Jun;44(6):325-9.

Abstract

An eight-year-old boy presented with a sudden onset of chest pain. He had been diagnosed to have a left spontaneous pneumothorax. Chest radiographs and computed tomography of the chest showed a thin-walled cyst in the left lower lobe. Thoracotomy and a segmentectomy of the apical segment of the lower lobe was performed, confirming the diagnosis of a ruptured bronchogenic cyst. Imaging findings of various pulmonary cystic lesions in children are discussed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Bronchogenic Cyst / congenital
  • Bronchogenic Cyst / diagnosis*
  • Bronchogenic Cyst / pathology
  • Chest Pain / diagnosis
  • Chest Pain / etiology
  • Child
  • Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation of Lung, Congenital / diagnosis
  • Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation of Lung, Congenital / pathology
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Pneumothorax / congenital
  • Pneumothorax / diagnosis*
  • Pneumothorax / pathology
  • Radiography, Thoracic
  • Rupture, Spontaneous / diagnosis*
  • Thoracotomy
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed