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Bronchogenic cyst Epidemiology and Demographics

Introduction

Overview

Overview

Epidemiology and Demographics

Epidemiology and Demographics

Incidence

Prevalences

  • The prevalence of bronchogenic cyst is estimated at 1 per 42,000 and 1 per 68,000 admissions in two hospital series.[2]

Case fatality rate/mortality rate

Age

  • Bronchogenic cyst can be found in people of all age groups.[4]

Race

  • There is no racial predilection to bronchogenic cyst.

Gender

  • Bronchogenic cyst is slightly more prevalent in men and often remain undetected till the third or fourth decade of life.[5][6]
References

References

  1. ↑ McAdams HP, Kirejczyk WM, Rosado-de-Christenson ML, Matsumoto S (2000). “Bronchogenic cyst: imaging features with clinical and histopathologic correlation”. Radiology. 217 (2): 441–6. doi:10.1148/radiology.217.2.r00nv19441. PMID 11058643.
  2. ↑ Limaïem F, Ayadi-Kaddour A, Djilani H, Kilani T, El Mezni F (2008). “Pulmonary and mediastinal bronchogenic cysts: a clinicopathologic study of 33 cases”. Lung. 186 (1): 55–61. doi:10.1007/s00408-007-9056-4. PMID 18064522.
  3. ↑ Makhija Z, Moir CR, Allen MS, Cassivi SD, Deschamps C, Nichols FC; et al. (2011). “Surgical management of congenital cystic lung malformations in older patients”. Ann Thorac Surg. 91 (5): 1568–73, discussion 1573. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.01.080. PMID 21420068.
  4. ↑ Ribet ME, Copin MC, Gosselin BH (1996). “Bronchogenic cysts of the lung”. Ann Thorac Surg. 61 (6): 1636–40. doi:10.1016/0003-4975(96)00172-5. PMID 8651761.
  5. ↑ Lardinois D, Gugger M, Ris HB (1999). “Bronchogenic cyst of the left lower lobe associated with severe hemoptysis”. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 16 (3): 382–3. doi:10.1016/s1010-7940(99)00226-2. PMID 10554866.
  6. ↑ AktoÄŸu S, Yuncu G, Halilçolar H, Ermete S, Buduneli T (1996). “Bronchogenic cysts: clinicopathological presentation and treatment”. Eur Respir J. 9 (10): 2017–21. doi:10.1183/09031936.96.09102017. PMID 8902460.

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Joanna Ekabua, M.D. [2]