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KMID : 0357919780120010093
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Korean Journal of Pathology
1978 Volume.12 No. 1 p.93 ~ p.97
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Cervical Thymic Cyst ( A Case Report)
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신희영(申熙永)/Hee Young Shin
안선환(安宣煥)/지제근(池堤根)/Geung Hwan Ahn/Je G. Chi
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Abstract
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The congenital cyst is a rare tumor which can be situated in the neck or the
mediastinum. Since Pollosson and Piery published their first case of cervical thymic cyst
in 1901, approximately 40 cases have been recorded in the world literature. Correct
preoperative diagnosis of this cystic mass has seldom been made. About two-thirds
occur in the first decade of life and most of the remainer in the second in contrast to
the common branchial cysts that occur after the second decade. Males are affected twice
as ofen as females. They are believed to develop in remnants of thymic tissue which
have failed to descend from the third branchial pounch into the mediastinum in the 6th
to 8th weeks of embryonic life.
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