Multilocular thymic cyst detected during coronary artery bypass surgery

• Main Authors: Funda Yıldırım, Tolga Onur Badak, Adnan Taner Kurdal, İhsan İşkesen, Bekir Hayrettin Şirin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dicle University Medical School 2013-01-01
• Series: Dicle Medical Journal
• Subjects: Multiloculer thymic cysts; coronary artery bypass graft surgery; malignancy
• Online Access: http://www.diclemedj.org/upload/sayi/27/Dicle%20Med%20J-01221.pdf

Thymic cyts that are located in the mediastinal space arerarely seen and forms 1-3% of all the mediastinal masses.They may be congenital or acquired. During the coronaryartery surgery of 54 years old male patient, 14x4 cmand 13x3 cm sized masses were detected at the anteriormediastinum. The masses were thick walled and hadmulticystic apperance. After the median sternotomy, allthymic cysts were resected then coronary artery bypasssurgery was performed. The histopathologic examinationwas diagnosed as acquired multilocular thymic cysts andlymhoid hyperplasia. Thymic masses can be accidentallyseen during median sternotomy for coronary artery bypasssurgery, we think that removal of these masses arenecessary and beneficial.Key words: Multiloculer thymic cysts, coronary artery bypassgraft surgery, malignancy