Cervicothoracic Thymic Cyst: An Unusual Presentation

Cervicothoracic thymic cysts are rare and difficult to diagnose preoperatively. We report a case of a cervicothoracic thymic cyst presenting as a lateral neck mass and mimicking a laryngocele in a 3-year-old boy and its definitive management.

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Autores principales: Rajakumar, Anjith Prakash, Ganesh, Jai, Vaidyanathan, Swaminathan, Agarwal, Ravi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5894584/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29662818
http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2018.51.2.156
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author Rajakumar, Anjith Prakash
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spelling pubmed-58945842018-04-16 Cervicothoracic Thymic Cyst: An Unusual Presentation Rajakumar, Anjith Prakash Ganesh, Jai Vaidyanathan, Swaminathan Agarwal, Ravi Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg How-To-Do It Cervicothoracic thymic cysts are rare and difficult to diagnose preoperatively. We report a case of a cervicothoracic thymic cyst presenting as a lateral neck mass and mimicking a laryngocele in a 3-year-old boy and its definitive management. The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2018-04 2018-04-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5894584/ /pubmed/29662818 http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2018.51.2.156 Text en Copyright © 2018 by The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. All rights Reserved. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Cervicothoracic Thymic Cyst: An Unusual Presentation
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title_short Cervicothoracic Thymic Cyst: An Unusual Presentation
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topic How-To-Do It
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5894584/
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