A Case of Bronchogenic Cyst of the Stomach

Masakazu Fujii, Motonori Okino, Kentaro Fujioka and Katsuyuki Yamashita

Department of Surgery, Onoda City Hospital

A 59-year-old woman, admitted our hospital for epigastralgia, was diagnosed as having acute cholecystitis and an abdominal cyst. She had been treated with medication at another hospital. We performed a cholecystectomy and then cut the border between the stomach and the abdominal cyst. We removed the cyst with a part of the gastric mucosa after separating the cyst from the muscle of stomach. The histological diagnosis was a bronchogenic cyst. The patient has remained in good health during the approximate 6.5 years since surgery. The bronchogenic cyst is a congenital cyst that arises from a developmental aberration of the primitive foregut. The bronchogenic cyst is benign, but surgery is indicated because preoperative diagnosis is very difficult and there is a possibility of complicating malignancy. A bronchogenic cyst in the abdomen is uncommon; only 7 cases including ours have been reported in Japan.

Key words
bronchogenic cyst, cyst in stomach, abdominal cyst

Reprint requests
Masakazu Fujii Department of Surgery, Onoda City Hospital
1863-1, Higashitakatomari, Onoda-shi, 756-0094 JAPAN

Accepted
October 29, 2003

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