The case of a 52-year-old woman with an enterogenous cyst of the mediastinum adhering to the supradiaphragmatic esophagus, surgically removed in right posterior thoracotomy is described. The latest hypotheses on the etiopathogenesis of this morbid entity are reviewed.
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