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PERICARDIAL CELOMIC CYSTSReview of the Literature and Report of a Case
ROBERT A. BUYERS, M.D.;
FREDERIC B. EMERY, M.D.
Arch Surg. 1950;60(5):1002-1005.
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VARIOUS types of mediastinal and pericardial cysts have been described and reviewed in the literature. However, Lambert1 was first to offer a simple embryologic explanation of the pericardial celomic cyst, which served to correlate all the conflicting and confusing data on thin-walled cystic lesions of the anterior mediastinum.
The following presentation illustrates an interesting case of pericardial celomic cyst treated successfully by surgical excision.
REPORT OF CASE
M. R., a 31 year old white man, was admitted to the Veterans Administration Hospital, Des Moines, Iowa, on May 18, 1948. In February 1946 a routine roentgenogram of the chest had disclosed a well circumscribed mass present in the left lower pulmonary field. A diaphragmatic hernia was suspected, inasmuch as there were no pulmonary symptoms, but roentgenograms of the gastrointestinal tract failed to substantiate such a diagnosis. During the ensuing two year period repeated roentgenograms of the chest showed essentially no
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Author Affiliations
DES MOINES, IOWA
From the Department of Surgery, Veterans Administration Hospital.
Footnotes
Published with permission of the Chief Medical Director, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Veterans Administration, who assumes no responsibility for the opinions expressed or conclusions drawn by the authors.
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