Lee Hye-Jeong, Kim Eun-Kyung, Hong Soonwon
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Research Institute of Radiological Science, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Korean J Radiol. 2006 Apr-Jun;7(2):149-51. doi: 10.3348/kjr.2006.7.2.149.
We report here on an extremely rare case of an intrathyroidal branchial cleft cyst. Intrathyroidal branchial cleft cyst is rare disease entity and it has nonspecific findings on sonography, so the diagnosis of the lesion is very difficult. However, during aspiration, if pus-like materials are aspirated from a thyroid cyst, we should consider the possibility of intrathyroidal branchial cleft cyst in the differential diagnosis.
我们在此报告一例极为罕见的甲状腺内鳃裂囊肿病例。甲状腺内鳃裂囊肿是一种罕见的疾病实体,超声检查表现不具特异性,因此该病变的诊断非常困难。然而,在抽吸过程中,如果从甲状腺囊肿中抽出脓性物质,在鉴别诊断时我们应考虑甲状腺内鳃裂囊肿的可能性。