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The patient's mediastinal bronchogenic cyst in 2004, measuring 4.5 x 6.5 cm.
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A 46-year-old female with a history of mild persistent asthma and mediastinal bronchogenic cyst, identified incidentally in 2004 during workup of an asthma exacerbation (Figure 1), was admitted with three-day history of productive cough and fever.
(a) The patient's large right mediastinal bronchogenic cyst displacing other mediastinal structures and compressing the right bronchus intermedius and middle/lower lobe bronchi. Lung window. (b) Mediastinal window.
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A subsequent CT scan confirmed a large right mediastinal bronchogenic cyst that had increased in size causing displacement of the mediastinal structures and compression of the right bronchus intermedius and middle/lower lobe bronchi (Figure 2).