Cervical Thymic Cyst

Sanusi, I. Daniel; Carrington, Patrick R.; Adams, David Nicholas

doi:10.1001/archderm.1982.01650140054022

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“…The capsule is composed of dense fibrous tissue containing epithelium of cuboidal, columnar, or squamous varieties and frequently contains cholesterol granulomas. 11 The pathognomonic histologic finding is the presence of Hassall's corpuscles within the cyst wall. These are described as conglomerates of "keratinizing epithelial cells originating in the thymic medulla."…”

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Thymopharyngeal Duct Cyst: A Case Presentation and Literature Review

Kuperan¹,

Quraishi²,

Shah³

et al. 2010

The Laryngoscope

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The differential diagnosis of a lateral cystic neck mass includes branchial cleft cysts and lymphangiomas. Cervical thymic cysts are rare, and thymopharyngeal duct cysts, which maintain a connection to the pharynx, are rarer still. We present an interesting case of a 6 year-old male who developed acute onset of a left-sided neck mass. CT and MRI findings revealed a multiloculated cyst closely associated with the left lobe of the thyroid gland with a tract extending up along the carotid sheath to the pyriform sinus. Complete surgical excision was performed. The anatomic location and pathology were consistent with a thymopharyngeal duct cyst. The embryology, clinical presentation, radiologic and pathologic findings, and surgical management of thymopharyngeal duct cysts will be discussed.

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Thymopharyngeal Duct Cyst: A Case Presentation and Literature Review

Kuperan¹,

Quraishi²,

Shah³

et al. 2010

The Laryngoscope

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“…18 Thymic cysts may be located over the manubrium sterni and are sometimes lined by ciliated epitheli¬ um, but the histologie diagnosis rests on the finding of thymic tissue in the surrounding stroma. 19 Thus, based on anatomic and histopathologic fea¬ tures, we favor a primitive foregut origin for our patient's presternal cyst. Dermatologists should be aware of the embryologie origin of some cutaneous ciliated cysts in the presternal region.…”

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Presternal Ciliated Cyst

Patterson¹,

Pittman²,

Rich³

1984

Arch Dermatol

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“…The walls can be lined with squamous, cuboidal, or ciliated columnar epithelium; in traumatized cases the epithelium may be denuded and the cysts lined by granulation tissue and/or prominent foreign‐body giant cell response and cholesterol granulomas. The identification of thymic tissue with Hassall's corpuscles is necessary for the diagnosis, and differentiates thymic cysts from branchial cleft cysts, cystic hygroma, dermoid cysts, cystic teratoma, and cystic metastases 6, 11, 15, 16, 31, 32. Hassall's corpuscles are concentric epithelioreticular cells and macrophages in the medulla 4, 10, 16, 17, 22, 33, 34.…”

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