A 63 year old woman presenting chronic back pain and neuralgia had abnormal shadow on chest radiograph. She has a history of pulmonary tuberculosis treated in 1977. The chest-CT scan showed a soft tissue mass in the lower lobe of the right lung and a cystic mass in the paravertebral region. The patient had right lower lobectomy and complete excision of a paraoesophageal cyst. Both masses were b...

sult from aberrant budding from the ventral diverticulum, and are usually discovered in the posterior part of the mediastinum, along the right paratracheal wall (1, 2). Cysts that develop below the diaphragm, especially in the retroperitoneal region, are extremely rare (3, 4), and fewer than 50 cases have been reported in English language clinical literature to date. To the best of our knowledg...

INTRODUCTION Neuroendocrine tumors are a rare but diverse group of malignancies that arise in a wide range of organ systems, including the mediastinum. Differential diagnosis includes other masses arising in the middle mediastinum such as lymphoma, pericardial, bronchogenic and enteric cysts, metastatic tumors, xanthogranuloma, systemic granuloma, diaphragmatic hernia, meningocele and paraverte...

A well defined lung mass with clear margins and no other signs such as lymphadenopathy, pulmonary infiltration, consolidation, collapse or bone involvement usually indicates a benign lesion, whether a tumour such as an adenoma (carcinoid), cyst or vascular abnormality. Bronchogenic, pericardial and hydatid cysts do not show contrast enhancement, adenomas do enhance but not as significantly as v...

Gastric duplication cysts (GDC) lined with pseudostratified columnar ciliated epithelium (PCCE) are uncommon lesions that stem from a foregut developmental malformation. The clinical and radiological diagnosis is usually difficult. Definitive diagnosis can be established by histopathological examination. In this study, we report a rare case of a peri-gastric mass that was operated and reported ...