TY - JOUR
T1 - Fourth branchial cleft cyst and congenital absence of the contralateral thyroid lobe
AU - Adnan, Sareema H.
AU - Nobecourt, Priscilla
AU - Tran, Sifrance
AU - Radhakrishnan, Ravi S.
AU - Bowen-Jallow, Kanika A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Authors
PY - 2019/8
Y1 - 2019/8
N2 - Fourth branchial cleft anomalies are the rarest type of branchial anomalies. They arise from an incomplete involution of the fourth branchial cleft during development. We report the successful surgical excision of a left fourth branchial cleft cyst in a pediatric patient presenting with an enlarging painless lateral neck mass. Intraoperatively the patient was found to have a large left branchial cleft cyst, which displaced the left superior pole of the thyroid lobe. In addition, there was hemiagenesis of the right thyroid.
AB - Fourth branchial cleft anomalies are the rarest type of branchial anomalies. They arise from an incomplete involution of the fourth branchial cleft during development. We report the successful surgical excision of a left fourth branchial cleft cyst in a pediatric patient presenting with an enlarging painless lateral neck mass. Intraoperatively the patient was found to have a large left branchial cleft cyst, which displaced the left superior pole of the thyroid lobe. In addition, there was hemiagenesis of the right thyroid.
KW - Complete surgical excision
KW - Fourth branchial anomaly
KW - Fourth branchial cyst
KW - Hemiagenesis
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U2 - 10.1016/j.epsc.2019.101245
DO - 10.1016/j.epsc.2019.101245
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85066958347
SN - 2213-5766
VL - 47
JO - Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports
JF - Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports
M1 - 101245
ER -