An 18-month-old girl presented with high fever and vomiting. Pneumothorax and a cystic formation in the right hemithorax were found on a chest radiograph. The cyst measuring 10 × 10 × 8 cm was resected by a simple wedge resection. Histology revealed a complicated bronchogenic cyst with abscess formation.
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