title: Cervical thymic cyst in childhood: a case report.
abstract: Cervical thymic cysts are rare cervical masses which usually present in the first decade of life accounting for 0.3% - 1% of all congenital neck masses. Due to its rarity thymic cysts are seldom included in the differential diagnosis of cystic cervical mass and are often mistaken for more common conditions such as branchial cleft cyst or cystic hygroma. Herein we present a case of a 6-year-old girl with a right lateral cervical cystic mass with multiple septae extended from mandibular angle along the neurovascular bundle of the neck which revealed to be a thymic cyst at histopathology.
authors.affiliation: 1University of Florence and Children's University Hospital, Department of emergency, Critical Area and Pediatric surgery , Viale Pieraccini 24, Florence , Italy.
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Betti
authors.forename: Nasim Hanie
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Hoseini
authors.forename: Alessandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: Annamaria
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Buccoliero
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Messineo
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ghionzoli
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000737:chemistry; D003560:Cysts / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006099:Granuloma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000166:cytology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008334:Mandible / Q000473:pathology; D009333:Neck / Q000473:pathology; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000473:pathology; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014630:Vagus Nerve / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D002784:Cholesterol
keywords: asymptomatic; cervical mass; thymic cyst