title: Unusual diagnosis of a solitary thyroid nodule in the paediatric population: cervical thymic cyst.
abstract: We present a case of an 8-year-old girl with a painless swelling in her neck. An ultrasonogram revealed a cystic nodule with internal echoes, lying posterior to right lobe of thyroid, and MRI confirmed it. Thyroid scintigraphy did not show any uptake in the swelling. Intraoperatively, the lesion was densely adherent to the thyroid gland, hence a hemithyroidectomy was performed. Histopathology showed it to be an ectopic cervical thymic cyst with parathyroid tissue.
authors.affiliation: Department of Endocrine Surgery, Madras Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Department of Endocrinology and Endocrine Surgery, Vijaya Group of Hospitals, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Endocrine and Speciality Clinic, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors.forename: Dhalapathy
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sadacharan
authors.affiliation: Department of Endocrinology and Endocrine Surgery, Vijaya Group of Hospitals, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors.forename: Anjali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sathya
authors.affiliation: Endocrine and Speciality Clinic, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors.forename: Divya
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ravikumar
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Vijaya Group of Hospitals, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors.forename: Deepakala
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nallapa
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008476:Mediastinal Cyst / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D010280:Parathyroid Glands / Q000473:pathology; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000473:pathology; D016606:Thyroid Nodule / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D013965:Thyroidectomy / Q000379:methods*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed