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Báo cáo y học: " Challenges in the prenatal and post-natal diagnosis of mediastinal cystic hygroma: a case report"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Challenges in the prenatal and post-natal diagnosis of mediastinal cystic hygroma: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Challenges in the prenatal and post-natal diagnosis of mediastinal cystic hygroma a case report Sarfraz Ahmed Nazir 1 Syed Arsalan Raza2 Sheraz Nazir2 William Sherwood3 Colene Bowker4 and Kokila Lakhoo3 Address Department of Radiology John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford OX3 9DU UK 2Department of Cardiology John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford OX3 9DU UK 3Department of Paediatric Surgery John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford OX3 9DU UK and 4Department of Pathology John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford Ox3 9DU UK Email Sarfraz Ahmed Nazir - sarfraznazir@doctors.org.uk Syed Arsalan Raza - arsalanraza@gmail.com Sheraz Nazir - sheraz.nazir@doctors.org.uk William Sherwood - wsherwood@doctors.org.uk Colene Bowker - colene.bowker@orh.nhs.uk Kokila Lakhoo - Kokila.Lakhoo@paediatrics.ox.ac.uk Corresponding author Published I August 2008 Received 20 August 2007 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008 2 256 doi 10.1186 1752-1947-2-256 Accepted 1 August 2008 This article is available from http www.jmedicalcasereports.cOm content 2 1 256 2008 Nazir et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http creativecommons.org licenses by 2.0 which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ Introduction Cystic hygroma is a benign congenital neoplasm that mostly presents as a soft-tissue mass in the posterior triangle of the neck. Pure mediastinal lesions are uncommon the vast majority are asymptomatic and are an incidental finding in adulthood. The diagnosis is often made intra- or postoperatively. Prenatal identification is exceptional and post-natal diagnosis also proves challenging. Case presentation We report one such case that was mistaken for other entities in both the prenatal and immediate .