Department of Paediatrics, Kwong Wah Hospital, 25 Waterloo Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
DKK Ng ( 吳國強 ) M Med Sc, FRCP, FHKAM(Paed)
WF Lau ( 劉永暉 ) MBChB, MRCP
Private Practice
AKW Law ( 羅建華 ) MBChB, FHKAM(Paed), MRCP
Division of Paediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Queen Mary Hospital, 102 Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China
PKH Tam ( 譚廣亨 ) MCh, FACS, FHKCS
Correspondence to: Dr DKK Ng
We report a case of bronchogenic cyst incidentally identified from a chest radiograph in a child with roseola infantum. This is not a common congenital malformation. Age of presentation can be very variable. Mediastinal cyst accounts for the majority of cases. Clinically it can be totally asymptomatic or it may cause severe respiratory distress especially in young infants. Chest radiograph and CT scan thorax are the mainstay of investigation.