Premium
Posterior Mediastinal Bronchogenic Cyst Compressing Left Atrium
Author(s) -
ELIAS SAID E.,
D'CRUZ IVAN A.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1998.tb00674.x
Subject(s) - bronchogenic cyst , medicine , magnetic resonance imaging , radiology , computed tomography , cyst , right atrium , left atrium , mediastinal tumor , mediastinum , surgery , cardiology , atrial fibrillation
The echocardiographic literature contains exceedingly few reports of mediastinal bronchogenic cyst; in most published cases of this entity, the cysts were imaged by computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging. Because mediastinal bronchogenic cyst is little known as a cause of cardiorespiratory symptoms, we report such a case.