Betti Marta, Hoseini Nasim Hanie, Martin Alessandra, Buccoliero Annamaria, Messineo Antonio, Ghionzoli Marco
1University of Florence and Children's University Hospital, Department of emergency, Critical Area and Pediatric surgery , Viale Pieraccini 24, Florence , Italy.
Fetal Pediatr Pathol. 2015 Feb;34(1):65-9. doi: 10.3109/15513815.2014.966181. Epub 2014 Oct 20.
Cervical thymic cysts are rare cervical masses which usually present in the first decade of life accounting for 0.3% - 1% of all congenital neck masses. Due to its rarity thymic cysts are seldom included in the differential diagnosis of cystic cervical mass and are often mistaken for more common conditions such as branchial cleft cyst or cystic hygroma. Herein we present a case of a 6-year-old girl with a right lateral cervical cystic mass with multiple septae extended from mandibular angle along the neurovascular bundle of the neck which revealed to be a thymic cyst at histopathology.
颈部胸腺囊肿是一种罕见的颈部肿块，通常出现在生命的第一个十年，占所有先天性颈部肿块的0.3% - 1%。由于其罕见性，胸腺囊肿很少被纳入颈部囊性肿块的鉴别诊断，常被误诊为更常见的疾病，如鳃裂囊肿或囊性水瘤。在此，我们报告一例6岁女孩，其右侧颈部有一个囊性肿块，有多个分隔，从下颌角沿颈部神经血管束延伸，组织病理学检查显示为胸腺囊肿。
