Cystic nodal metastasis of thyroid papillary carcinoma mimicking branchial cleft cyst: Two case reports

Autor: Zerrin Özergin Coşkun, Özlem Çelebi Erdivanlı, Hasan Güçer, Abdülkadir Özgür, Münir Demirci, Engin Dursun
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Turkish Archives of Otorhinolaryngology, Vol 50, Iss 4, Pp 78-80 (2012)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2667-7474
DOI: 10.5152/tao.2012.22
Popis: Lateral cervical cystic masses of younger adult patients are most commonly branchial cleft cysts. Notwithstanding, lateral cervical cystic masses rarely could be the first sign of ocult thyroid carcinoma. In this paper we reported two cases, whom preoperative clinical diagnosis were branchial cleft cysts and than postoperative pathological diagnosis were metastatic cyst of thyroid carcinoma. Differential diagnosis of metastatic thyroid carcinoma must be carefully considered and much care must always be taken preoperativly in the evaluation of lateral cervical cystic masses.
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