Cervical thymic rebound after cancer treatment.
While newly recognized neck masses in children previously treated for malignancy raise the specter of recurrent disease, recent experience with 2 patients has shown us that enlargement of cervical thymic tissue should be considered in the differential diagnosis, especially early after the completion of chemotherapy or immunotherapy.
Bergman
Kerry
K
Division of Pediatric Surgery, Morristown Memorial Hospital, Morristown, NJ 07902, USA.
Murphy
Robyn
R
Miller
Michelle
M
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002828:Choristoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery; D009333:Neck / Q000473:pathology*; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000175:diagnosis; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery; D013950:Thymus Gland