Thoracoscopic excision of two bronchogenic cysts located in highest upper mediastinum: Report of two cases

Bronchogenic cysts are rare congenital malformation that need surgical removal. To date, bronchogenic cysts located in highest upper mediastinum excised by thoracoscopy have not been reported, though complete thoracoscopic extirpation of a bronchogenic cyst has been reported before. We excised two h...

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Main Authors: Lin, Fengwu, Zhang, Chuan, Cheng, Kunpeng, Dang, Dan, Zhao, Yan
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Professional Medical Publications 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4485302/
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spelling pubmed-44853022015-07-06 Thoracoscopic excision of two bronchogenic cysts located in highest upper mediastinum: Report of two cases Lin, Fengwu Zhang, Chuan Cheng, Kunpeng Dang, Dan Zhao, Yan Case Report Bronchogenic cysts are rare congenital malformation that need surgical removal. To date, bronchogenic cysts located in highest upper mediastinum excised by thoracoscopy have not been reported, though complete thoracoscopic extirpation of a bronchogenic cyst has been reported before. We excised two highest upper bronchogenic cysts by thoracoscopy successfully without any postoperative complication, demonstrating thoracoscopy could be a first-line therapeutic option even for highest upper mediastinum brochogenic cysts. Professional Medical Publications 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4485302/ /pubmed/26150875 http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.313.6921 Text en Copyright: © Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author Lin, Fengwu
Zhang, Chuan
Cheng, Kunpeng
Dang, Dan
Zhao, Yan
spellingShingle Lin, Fengwu
Zhang, Chuan
Cheng, Kunpeng
Dang, Dan
Zhao, Yan
Thoracoscopic excision of two bronchogenic cysts located in highest upper mediastinum: Report of two cases
author_facet Lin, Fengwu
Zhang, Chuan
Cheng, Kunpeng
Dang, Dan
Zhao, Yan
author_sort Lin, Fengwu
title Thoracoscopic excision of two bronchogenic cysts located in highest upper mediastinum: Report of two cases
title_short Thoracoscopic excision of two bronchogenic cysts located in highest upper mediastinum: Report of two cases
title_full Thoracoscopic excision of two bronchogenic cysts located in highest upper mediastinum: Report of two cases
title_fullStr Thoracoscopic excision of two bronchogenic cysts located in highest upper mediastinum: Report of two cases
title_full_unstemmed Thoracoscopic excision of two bronchogenic cysts located in highest upper mediastinum: Report of two cases
title_sort thoracoscopic excision of two bronchogenic cysts located in highest upper mediastinum: report of two cases
description Bronchogenic cysts are rare congenital malformation that need surgical removal. To date, bronchogenic cysts located in highest upper mediastinum excised by thoracoscopy have not been reported, though complete thoracoscopic extirpation of a bronchogenic cyst has been reported before. We excised two highest upper bronchogenic cysts by thoracoscopy successfully without any postoperative complication, demonstrating thoracoscopy could be a first-line therapeutic option even for highest upper mediastinum brochogenic cysts.
publisher Professional Medical Publications
publishDate 2015
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4485302/
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