[Cervical ectopic thymus].
Two cases of cervical aberrant thymus in infants are reported; it's important to identify such ectopia because thymic tissue involutes spontaneously later on; neither surgery nor other treatment is needed. Ultrasonography is a method of choice for tissue characterization of ectopic thymus and differential diagnosis with other cervical masses.
Rypens
F
F
Service de radiodiagnostic, Hôpital Erasme, Cliniques Universitaires de Bruxelles, Belgique.
Avni
F
F
Müller
F
F
Baran
D
D
Struyven
J
J
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009333:Neck / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000002:abnormalities*; D014463:Ultrasonography
Thymus ectopique cervical.