Frontiers in Oncology (Feb 2023)

Intrathymic growing bronchogenic cyst mimicking thymoma: A case report

  • Madalina Grigoroiu,
  • Madalina Grigoroiu,
  • Sarah Paisley,
  • Emmanuel Brian,
  • Delphine Natali

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2023.1121321
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13

Abstract

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Intrathymic bronchogenic cysts are extremely rare lesions, and the differential diagnosis with a banal thymic cyst or a solid tumor can be problematic. Thymic carcinomas arising within thymic cysts have also been reported. We report a case of radical thymectomy for a slowly growing small thymic cyst. The pathological finding revealed a bronchogenic cyst rather than a thymic neoplasm.

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