Ectopic hamartomatous thymoma growing in the sternocleidomastoid muscle masquerading as sarcoma.
The distinction between ectopic hamartomatous thymoma and sarcoma is difficult, and preoperative biopsy and intraoperative histopathological examination fail to give a definitive diagnosis. It is important to recognise ectopic hamartomatous thymoma as one of the differential diagnoses of a cervical tumour.
Iida
Eri
E
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Okazaki
Mutsumi
M
Sarukawa
Shunji
S
Motoi
Toru
T
Kikuchi
Yoshinao
Y
D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006222:Hamartoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D009334:Neck Muscles / Q000601:surgery*; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D013945:Thymoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery