Jaramillo D, Perez-Atayde A, Griscom N T
Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115.
Radiology. 1989 Jul;172(1):207-9. doi: 10.1148/radiology.172.1.2740504.
Three male subjects, aged 8 months to 18 years, who had previously undergone thoracic surgery, developed mediastinal thymic cysts. Two cysts, both multilocular, were shown by plain radiography and computed tomography, and one was found incidentally during cardiac surgery. These three cysts constitute 15% of the 20 thymic cysts removed surgically or found at autopsy at the authors' hospital in the past 27 years. These cases and three previously reported cases in male adolescents and adults suggest that some thymic cysts are related to trauma during surgery.
三名年龄在8个月至18岁之间、曾接受过胸外科手术的男性患者出现了纵隔胸腺囊肿。通过X线平片和计算机断层扫描显示了两个囊肿，均为多房性，其中一个是在心脏手术中偶然发现的。在过去27年里，这三个囊肿占作者所在医院手术切除或尸检发现的20个胸腺囊肿的15%。这些病例以及之前报道的三例男性青少年和成人病例表明，一些胸腺囊肿与手术创伤有关。
