TY - JOUR
AR - JSCR-2022-2-105
TI - Cervical Thymic Cyst: A Unique Case Report with Related Embryogenesis
AU - Majd A., Hadad
AU - Mohammad, S. Mallick
AU - Alam, A. Shafi
AU - Abdullah, Badughaish
JO - Surgery Case Reports
PY - 2022
DA - Wed 11, Jan 2023
SN - 2733-225X
DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.31487/j.JSCR.2022.02.05
UR - https://www.sciencerepository.org/cervical-thymic-cyst_JSCR-2022-2-105 
KW - Persistence thymopharyngeal duct, thymic cyst, cervical cyst
AB - Cystic lesions of neck containing thymic tissue are rare and usually difficult to diagnose. Postulated hypothesis for this entity is the persistence and/or degeneration of thymopharyngeal duct derived from pharyngeal pouch endoderm. We report a unique case of persistent thymopharyngeal duct which was diagnosed antenatally at 30 weeks’ gestation, and it preserved its connection with the pharynx. Postnatal radiological studies were non-specific and misleading, and diagnosis was confirmed by histological examination of the excised specimen.