An interesting mediastinal cyst case: Benign cystic mesothelioma

Fazlı Yanık; Yekta Altemur Karamustafaoğlu; Fulya Özpuyan; Yener Yörük

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2018.14650

Fazlı Yanık¹, Yekta Altemur Karamustafaoğlu¹, Fulya Özpuyan², Yener Yörük¹

¹Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medicine Faculty of Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey
²Department of Pathology, Medicine Faculty of Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2018.14650

Anterior mediastinal, well-defined, ametabolic cystic lesion was detected incidentally in a 69-year-old male patient. Uniportal videothoracoscopic surgery was performed to the lesion for diagnosis and treatment purposes. Histopathological findings were in accordance with benign cystic mesothelioma. Benign cystic mesothelioma has been defined in the abdomen, particularly among females of reproductive age. Benign cystic mesothelioma originating from mediastinal pleura is very rare entity and was not defined in the literature. To our knowledge, we present this rare and interesting mediastinal cystic lesion for the first time in the literature.

Keywords : Benign cystic mesothelioma; cyst; mediastinum

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