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Thoracoscopic resection of a giant mediastinal parathyroid cyst

General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery volume 62, pages 444–450 (2014)Cite this article

Abstract

Parathyroid cysts are a rare situation, unusually in the mediastinum. The preoperative diagnosis could be more difficult in some atypical topographies and imaging characteristics in particular in case of huge mediastinal cyst. In the following years traditionally, in case of intrathoracic parathyroid cysts, sternotomy or thoracotomy have been the preferred approaches. We report a case of an older patient with a huge mediastinal parathyroid cyst removed successfully using videothoracoscopy.

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    Andrea Dell’Amore, Nizar Asadi, Tommaso Bartalena, Alessandro Bini & Franco Stella

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Dell’Amore, A., Asadi, N., Bartalena, T. et al. Thoracoscopic resection of a giant mediastinal parathyroid cyst. Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 62, 444–450 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11748-013-0256-y

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Keywords

  • Parathyroid cyst
  • Thoracoscopy
  • Medistinal cyst
  • Ectopic parathyroid