Case 87: Thymic Cyst or Cystic Thymoma

Prevascular space mediastinal lesions can be generally differentiated from one another, including thymic cysts from cystic thymomas

Bhavin Jankharia

Table of Contents

Index and Table of Contents
Technical and Practice Issues * Case 11: 62-years old misdiagnosed to have interstitial lung disease - mid-inspiratory and expiratory scans * Snippet 03: Radiation risk and CT chest * Case 23: 60-years old - 40-pack years smoker - right upper lobe nodule - resolved using “mean” reconstructions…

Case

A 51-years old otherwise aymptomatic individual presented with a mediastinal mass on a chest radiograph.

A CT scan confirmed an anterior mediastinal mass in the prevascular space.

What do you think this is? Cystic thymoma? Thymic cyst?

For the entire case and discussion, please see below.

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