These days, quite often you would have heard people talking about a word ‘Cyst”. Somebody had had a problem of epilepsy and the treating doctor had told him about a cyst in the brain. Quite often you would have heard your aquantenance complaining about pain in right upper side of abdomen and jaundice and it was found later that a cyst in his liver was the cause of it.
Also you would have heard or seen your relative suffering from severe dry cough along with chest pain and coughing out blood. When on a doctor’s advice chest X-ray was done, a cyst was found in the lung. Sometimes you do not have any problem and when you get routine medical check-up for job placement or for going abroad, you will be surprised to see a large round white shadow of cyst in chest X-ray on one side or both sides. You would have also heard that so and so got operated for lung cyst removal and later on after some time, again a cyst was formed after surgery.
Dr. K. K. Pandey is a Senior Consultant in Thoracic & Endothoracic Surgery at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, with 30+ years’ experience in lung cancer surgery, chest tumors, pleural diseases, VATS, esophageal surgery and minimally invasive thoracic procedures. He is also a dedicated health writer and educator.