Case 87: Thymic Cyst or Cystic Thymoma

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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.