Cervical Thymic Cyst Mimicking Laryngocele

Cervical thymic cysts are nearly 0.3% of all congenital cervical cysts. Thymic cysts are asymptomatic, but they rarely complain of dysphagia or tracheal obstruction symptoms. A soft, mobile, and painless mass increasing with valsalva maneuver directs the diagnosis of laryngocele. There has not been...

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Autores principales: Ozturk, Kayhan, Elsurer, Cagdas, Bulut, Serap, Duran, Mutlu, Ugras, Serdar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3877586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24455374
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/839406
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author Ozturk, Kayhan
Elsurer, Cagdas
Bulut, Serap
Duran, Mutlu
Ugras, Serdar
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Elsurer, Cagdas
Bulut, Serap
Duran, Mutlu
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description Cervical thymic cysts are nearly 0.3% of all congenital cervical cysts. Thymic cysts are asymptomatic, but they rarely complain of dysphagia or tracheal obstruction symptoms. A soft, mobile, and painless mass increasing with valsalva maneuver directs the diagnosis of laryngocele. There has not been any study in the literature in which thymic cyst presenting like laryngocele. We hereby present a case of thymic cyst mimicking laryngocele that has not been reported so far.
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spelling pubmed-38775862014-01-16 Cervical Thymic Cyst Mimicking Laryngocele Ozturk, Kayhan Elsurer, Cagdas Bulut, Serap Duran, Mutlu Ugras, Serdar Case Rep Otolaryngol Case Report Cervical thymic cysts are nearly 0.3% of all congenital cervical cysts. Thymic cysts are asymptomatic, but they rarely complain of dysphagia or tracheal obstruction symptoms. A soft, mobile, and painless mass increasing with valsalva maneuver directs the diagnosis of laryngocele. There has not been any study in the literature in which thymic cyst presenting like laryngocele. We hereby present a case of thymic cyst mimicking laryngocele that has not been reported so far. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC3877586/ /pubmed/24455374 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/839406 Text en Copyright © 2013 Kayhan Ozturk et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ozturk, Kayhan
Elsurer, Cagdas
Bulut, Serap
Duran, Mutlu
Ugras, Serdar
Cervical Thymic Cyst Mimicking Laryngocele
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title_full Cervical Thymic Cyst Mimicking Laryngocele
title_fullStr Cervical Thymic Cyst Mimicking Laryngocele
title_full_unstemmed Cervical Thymic Cyst Mimicking Laryngocele
title_short Cervical Thymic Cyst Mimicking Laryngocele
title_sort cervical thymic cyst mimicking laryngocele
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3877586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24455374
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/839406
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