Supradiaphragmatic Thoracic-Duct Cyst

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EMERSON1 documented the first ante-mortem surgically diagnosed case of supradiaphragmatic thoracic-duct cyst (1950), and called attention to 3 previously discovered cases at post-mortem examination. His patient was a twenty-year-old college student who was discovered to have a mediastinal mass on x-ray study of the chest. She had had symptoms for two and a half years, more in the recent five months, of repeated attacks of substernal soreness, with some exertional dyspnea and a nonproductive cough. At surgery a mass, 4.0 by 5.5 cm., was found; it was smooth, with a yellowish hue, and contained a milky solution that took Sudan . . .

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