Erschienen in:
01.09.2015 | Sine qua non Radiology-Pathology
Second Branchial Cleft Cyst
verfasst von:
Susan Muller, Ashley Aiken, Kelly Magliocca, Amy Y. Chen
Erschienen in:
Head and Neck Pathology
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Ausgabe 3/2015
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Excerpt
A 31 year old white female presented with complaints of an enlarging right sided neck mass of 1.5 months. She reported fluctuation in size over the past month. Her primary care physician prescribed antibiotics but the mass did not decrease in size. On physical examination, the patient was afebrile. A 2 cm mobile non tender mass was palpated in the right neck. The rest of the head and neck physical examination was unremarkable. A fine needle aspiration was performed that showed abundant squamous cells present, some with mild atypia in a background of debris devoid of lymphocytes. Purulent liquid was aspirated which decreased the neck mass. …