[Cystic tumor of the mediastinum of digestive origin. Apropos of a new case. Diagnostic and pathogenic hypotheses]. / Tumeur kystique du médiastin d'origine digestive. A propos d'un nouveau cas. Hypothèses diagnostiques et pathogéniques.
Ann Chir
; 46(8): 774-7, 1992.
Article
in Fr
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-1285620
ABSTRACT
An incidental discovery of a posterior and inferior mediastinal cyst-like opacity allowed us to diagnose a pulmonary sequestration in a 45-year old woman. The operative findings showed an hour-glass tumor of the inferior mediastinum with an abdominal prolongation attached by a stalk onto the top of the stomach. These findings made us change our diagnosis in favour of an abdomino-thoracic gastric duplication. This new hypothesis was not confirmed by the results of the pathological report which revealed two kinds of tissue; intestinal in the abdomen and broncho-pulmonary in the chest. Two diagnoses where then proposed complex hamartoma or mediastinal bronchogenic cyst. The pathogenic interpretation in such cases is still very controversial. English authors are prone to classify them as broncho-pulmonary foregut malformations. Macroscopic and microscopic data of the specimen led us to consider our case-report to be a foregut malformation.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Hamartoma
/
Mediastinal Neoplasms
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
/
Etiology_studies
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Middle aged
Language:
Fr
Journal:
Ann Chir
Year:
1992
Document type:
Article