Cervical Thymic Cyst: A Unique Case Report with Related Embryogenesis
Cervical Thymic Cyst: A Unique Case Report with Related Embryogenesis
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Majd A. Hadad Mohammad S. Mallick Alam A. Shafi Abdullah Badughaish
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Majd A. HadadPediatric Surgery Department, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Cystic lesions of neck containing thymic tissue are rare and usually difficult to diagnose. Postulated hypothesis for this entity is the persistence and/or degeneration of thymopharyngeal duct derived from pharyngeal pouch endoderm. We report a unique case of persistent thymopharyngeal duct which was diagnosed antenatally at 30 weeks’ gestation, and it preserved its connection with the pharynx. Postnatal radiological studies were non-specific and misleading, and diagnosis was confirmed by histological examination of the excised specimen.
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Case Report and Review of the LiteraturePublication history
Received: Sat 10, Dec 2022Accepted: Mon 02, Jan 2023
Published: Wed 11, Jan 2023
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© 2023 Majd A. Hadad. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.DOI: 10.31487/j.JSCR.2022.02.05