title: Cervical presentation of a large thymic cyst: CT appearance.
abstract: Large cystic masses presenting in the neck are usually the result of a developmental anomaly of the pharyngeal pouches and branchial clefts or are cystic hygromas. We present a cyst arising from vestigial thymic remnants in the neck.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Missouri-Columbia, Health Sciences Center 65212.
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authors.lastname: Levine
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008476:Mediastinal Cyst / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D009333:Neck; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed