Life threatening complications caused by bronchogenic and oesophageal duplication cysts in a child
Hajjar, W.; El-Madany, Y.; Ashour, M.; Al-Kattan, K.
Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery 44(1): 135-137
2003
ISSN/ISBN: 0021-9509 PMID: 12627086 Document Number: 560664
An 11-year-old girl presented with severe respiratory distress, fever and septic manifestations. Computed tomography scan (CT) of the chest showed 2 separate superior and posterior mediastinal cysts, the upper one causing severe extrinsic compression of the trachea, and the oesophagus, while the lower cyst was at the subcarinal region compressing the 2 major bronchi. Emergency thoracotomy was performed permitting complete resection of intra-mural oesophageal enteric cyst, and a subcarinal bronchogenic cyst. The postoperative course was uneventful.