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Bronchogenic cysts

foregut cyst rarely connected to the tracheobronchial tree.

Presents in children and young adults as an incidental finding, as a mass or as an site of secondary infection.

Generally 1-4 cm in diameter.

Lined by pseudostratified columnar epithelium with squamous metaplasia in areas of inflammation.

Surgery curative.

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