Cervical thymic cysts

Pediatric Surgery International

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1219-1225

  Cigliano, Bruno ^a   Baltogiannis, Nikolaos ^b,c   De Marco, Marianna ^a   Faviou, Elsa ^b   Antoniou, Dimitrios ^b   De Luca, Ugo ^d   Soutis, Michail ^b   Settimi, Alesandro ^a  

^a FEDERICO II UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Children's Hospital of Athens Agia Sofia   (Greece)

^c Santobono Pediatric Hospital of Naples ^*  (Greece)

^d SANTOBONO PAUSILIPON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cervical mass; Childhood; Thymic cyst; Thymus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; GREECE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGING; JUGULAR VEIN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS; THYMUS CYST; VAGUS NERVE;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDIASTINAL CYST; NECK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYMECTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36448996139     PISSN: 01790358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00383-006-1822-5     Document Type: Article

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