Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
BMJ Case Rep. 2021 Feb 9;14(2):e240160. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2020-240160.
Retained thymic tissue may occur anywhere along the path of descent of the thymus. Cervical thymic cysts are a rare cause of benign neck masses. Thymopharyngeal duct cysts are thymic cysts that span the length of the neck and extend towards the mediastinum. These lesions are rare and classically have been described in paediatric patients. Here, we present the case of a 23-year-old woman with a left-sided neck mass, which was found to be a thymopharyngeal duct cyst. Multiple analytic modalities including the clinical presentation, imaging, operative findings and histology were required to confirm the diagnosis and are discussed below.
残留胸腺组织可发生于胸腺下降过程中的任何部位。颈胸腺囊肿是良性颈部肿块的罕见病因。胸腺咽管囊肿是跨越颈部并向纵隔延伸的胸腺囊肿。这些病变很少见，经典表现为儿科患者。在此，我们报告 1 例 23 岁女性左侧颈部肿块，经证实为胸腺咽管囊肿。需要多种分析方法，包括临床表现、影像学、手术发现和组织病理学来确诊，并在下文讨论。
