A Case of Ectopic Lateral Cervical Thymic Cyst Mimicking as a Second Branchial Cleft Cyst.
10.11106/ijt.2017.10.2.123
- Author:
Hyun Gi GIM
1
;
Mee Sook ROH
;
Jong Chul HONG
;
Heon Soo PARK
Author Information
1. Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Dong-A University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea. hspark1@dau.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Thymus gland;
Thymic cyst;
Neck
- MeSH:
Adult;
Branchial Region*;
Branchioma*;
Humans;
Mediastinal Cyst*;
Neck;
Thymus Gland
- From:International Journal of Thyroidology
2017;10(2):123-126
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Cervical thymic cysts are rare lesions of neck mass often misdiagnosed clinically as branchial cleft cyst and are mostly diagnosed, pathologically after surgery. The authors applied surgical resection to a 34-year-old man with right upper neck mass, which was misdiagnosed preoperatively as a second branchial cleft cyst. The pathological tissue examination result showed that the patient was diagnosed with a cervical thymic cyst. The thymic cyst of the lateral neck has not been reported from adult in Korean. Herein, we present the case with review of the related literature.
