• Chul Ung Kang, Deog Gon Cho, Kyu Do Cho, and Min Seop Jo.
• Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, St Vincent's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Paldal-Gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea. superdrkang@hanmail.net <superdrkang@hanmail.net>
• Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2008 Jul 1; 34 (1): 216-8.

AbstractEsophageal duplication cyst is a rare congenital esophageal anomaly of the foregut. This cyst usually occurs in isolation, and thus far, was treated by enucleation through thoracoscopic or thoracotomic surgery. Here we report a case of multiple esophageal duplication cysts that showed different pathological findings, i.e., the cysts were lined with pseudostratified ciliated columnar and stratified squamous epithelium. Esophageal cysts were incidentally detected in a 53-year-old man during the treatment of pneumonia. In chest-computed tomography, the cysts showed a thin wall and homogeneous inner density, while in endoscopy, no communication with esophageal mucosa was observed. We resected the esophageal cysts with endo-staplers under thoracoscopic surgery. No postoperative complications, including esophageal mucosal injury, occurred. A follow-up chest computed tomography revealed the complete resection of the cysts.

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