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KMID : 0356820040200010055
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Korean Journal of Head & Neck Oncology
2004 Volume.20 No. 1 p.55 ~ p.57
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Cervical Thymic Cyst
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Cervical thymic cysts are not very common. Two-thirds of the lesions are detected in the 1st decade of life, when the thymus is biggest in size and most active. The remaining one-third in the 2nd and 3rd decades. Due to its rarity, cervical thymic cyst is seldom included in the differential diagnosis of a neck mass. Approximately 90 cases have been reported thus far, and most of these cases have occurred asymptomatically in children and adults. We report a case of a 44-year old man with a cervical thymic cyst mimicking branchial cleft cyst.
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