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Migrating pleural mesothelial cyst

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Abstract

We herein describe an atypical presentation of a migrating coelomic cyst attached to a pedicle of pericardial fat pad in an asymptomatic 45-year-old woman. A review of the English-language literature revealed only one such case report.

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Review of the English literature has identified one such migratory pleural cyst [2] as found in our patient. Lambert theorized that the pericardium is formed from separate lacunae that merge later in embryonic life [3]. Lillie and associates associated mesothelial cysts with persistence of the ventral pericardial recess after embryonic development [4]. Mesothelial cysts may have broad interfaces with the pericardium (typically called a pericardial cyst) or be found in atypical places such as

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