Ruptured Branchial Cleft Cyst Presenting As Acute Thyroid Infection
- 1 June 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Clinical Pediatrics
- Vol. 21 (6) , 380-383
- https://doi.org/10.1177/000992288202100614
Abstract
A case is presented of a child with signs of recurrent acute thyroid infection which was found to result from rupture of an infected branchial cleft cyst abscess. This association has not previously been reported. A review of the bacterial etiol ogies of suppurative thyroiditis in childhood is presented.Keywords
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