Abstract

BENITO-CONEJERO, S.; CAMACHO-VAZQUEZ, C.  and  MAROTO-MONSERRAT, F.. Atipically located postraumatic pericardial cyst. An. Med. Interna (Madrid) [online]. 2005, vol.22, n.12, pp.594-596. ISSN 0212-7199.

Pericardial cyst are rare, most of them congenital in origin. They usually are located in the cardiophrenic angles, mainly on the right side. Although the most frequent clinical presentation is asyntomatic, and the prognosis is benign, important complications had been described. For this reason we used to take agressive therapeutic interventions like percutaneous aspiracion or surgical reseccion by thoracotomia or thoracoscophy. The case we report is interesting because it was an atipically located left upper paramediastinal cyst, and not congenital in origin but postraumatic. The diagnosis was made by imaging techniques and we accomplished conservative alternative because of the favourable evolution. We think that it should be a good option in case of asyntomatic and no complicated cases.

Keywords : Pericardial cyst; Pleuropericardial cyst.

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