MEDIASTINAL BRONCHOGENIC CYST REVEALING A SYNDROME OF MULTIPLE MALFORMATIONS

The authors report a case of a patient presenting with a bronchogenic mediastinal cyst, which presented as a super-infection of the cyst. Th e cyst was associated with malformation of the cervical vertebre, card iovascular abnormalities and congenital deafness, placing this in the group of rare complex polymalformation syndrome with Klippel-Feil Synd rome. The authors also stress the value of computed tomography, and ab ove all of nuclear magnetic resonance in the analysis of mediastinal t umours and in particular, of bronchogenic cysts.