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Mediastinal esophageal duplication cyst associated with a partial pericardial defect

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A two-year-old girl with a mediastinal esophageal duplication cyst is the twelfth example of a thoracic cyst of foregut origin or pulmonary “sequestration” (bronchopulmonary foregut malformation according to the expanded definition of Gerleet al.) that has been associated with a partial pericardial defect on the same side, suggesting that anomalous thoracic masses of several morphologic types have a similar pathogenesis.

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  1. Department of Radiology of the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Box 45, 11203, Brooklyn, New York, USA

    E. George Kassner M.D. (Clinical Associate Professor of Radiology)

  2. Department of Pathology of the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Box 45, 11203, Brooklyn, New York, USA

    Yale Rosen

  3. Department of Surgery (Division of Pediatric Surgery) of the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Box 45, 11203, Brooklyn, New York, USA

    Donald H. Klotz Jr.

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Kassner, E.G., Rosen, Y. & Klotz, D.H. Mediastinal esophageal duplication cyst associated with a partial pericardial defect. Pediatr Radiol 4, 53–56 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00978822

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