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Cervical Ectopic Thymus: A Case Report
Cervical thymic masses are congenital lesions that result from aberrant thymic migration during embryogenesis. Most of these masses are asymptomatic. Rarely cervical thymus becomes symptomatic with encroachment on adjacent aerodigestive structures. It should be considered in the differential diagnosis of neck masses, especially in children. Most cases are clinically misinterpreted as branchial ...
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Cervical ectopic thymus (CET), a common embryological anomaly detected incidentally at autopsy, is rarely described in clinical patients. Furthermore, aberrant cervical thymic tissue is an infrequently reported cause of paediatric neck masses. We report a 12-year-old female presenting with multinodular thyroid swelling since seven years of age. FNAC revealed adenomatous goitre with suspicious c...
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Papillary carcinoma of thyroid is the most common type of thyroid neoplasm which is usually confined to the thyroid and tends to metastasize to regional lymph nodes. Distant metastasis occur in up to 15% of cases. Thymic metastasis from any malignant carcinoma is extremely rare with only four cases reported in medical literature. We report a case of papillary carcinoma of thyroid metastasizing ...
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OBJECTIVES An ectopic cervical thymus (ECT) is regarded as a rare congenital anomaly; therefore, the optimal diagnostic and therapeutic strategy remains a debatable matter. We designed a study to elucidate the clinicopathological characteristics of ECTs in consecutive, unselected infant autopsies, to help guide case management. METHODS We searched for ECTs in all of the 21 consecutive, unsele...
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An ectopic cervical thymus is a rare congenital anomaly that can be located anywhere along the developmental pathway of thymic descent. Most lesions manifest as a cystic mass and have an indolent course. Two fatal cases associated with ectopic cervical thymus in the form of a solid mass are presented in conjunction with a review of the clinicopathological characteristics of the solid form. This...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Perinatology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0743-8346,1476-5543
DOI: 10.1038/jp.2008.89