Cervicothoracic Neurenteric Cyst With Contralateral Diaphragmatic Hernia: An Unusual Combination. (September 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Worrell, Stephanie; Randall, Alice; O'Donnell, Brighid
• Is Part Of: Pediatric and developmental pathology. Volume 24:Number 5(2021)
• Page Start: 467
• Page End: 470
• Publication Date: 2021-09
• Subjects: neurenteric cyst -- congenital diaphragmatic hernia -- spinal axis lesion -- lung hypoplasia; Pediatric pathology -- Periodicals; Children -- Diseases -- Periodicals; Diagnosis, Laboratory -- Periodicals; Abnormalities, Human -- Periodicals; Child development -- Periodicals; Pediatrics -- Periodicals; 616.07
• DOI: 10.1177/10935266211004253
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1093-5266

Abstract

We describe a premature male infant who died from complications resulting from two malformations: a large left-sided diaphragmatic hernia and a right-sided cervicothoracic neurenteric cyst. The findings of the first limited prenatal ultrasound led to the incorrect diagnosis of right-sided diaphragmatic hernia. Vertebral anomalies, commonly associated with neurenteric cysts, and an intrathoracic stomach, were not identified until autopsy examination. A literature review describes only one partly similar case relating a neurenteric cyst to the jejunum associated with an ipsilateral diaphragmatic defect identified on prenatal ultrasound. The second report of this combination raises the question of a developmental relationship.