IS USG A RELIABLE INVESTIGATION FOR LARGE HEMITHORACIC DERMOID CYSTS? ? A CASE REPORT

A 16 year girl and a 30 year old man presented to us with a suspected intractable left sided pleural effusion and a pericardial cyst respectively, diagnosed after chest roentgenogram and USG chest. CECT chest revealed solid mass lesions in the hemithorax, in both the cases and the findings were later confirmed on surgical exploration. On histopathology, both were found to be dermoid cysts. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first time that two cases of dermoid cysts of the thoracic cavity in an intimate relation to the pericardium and lungs are being reported. Both had been misdiagnosed on preliminary investigations and required CECT chest to clinch the diagnosis.