Differential diagnosis of cystic mediastinal lesions
- Cystic lesions with thin, smooth wall:
- • Pericardial cyst
- • Bronchogenic cyst
- • Esophageal duplication cyst
- • Thymic cyst
- • Neurenteric cyst
- • Mediastinal pancreatic pseudocyst
- • Intrathoracic meningocele
- Cyst lesions with thick wall, mural nodularity, or internal septations:
- • Thymic teratoma
- • Any mediastinal tumor with necrosis or cystic change
- • Mediastinal abscess
