Ectopic thymic tissue presenting as a lateral cervical swelling
- 1 November 1972
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in British Journal of Surgery
- Vol. 59 (11) , 885-886
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.1800591110
Abstract
Two infants presented with a swelling inferior to the angle of the mandible. At exploration both swellings were identified macroscopically and by frozen section as normal thymic tissue. In the light of present knowledge of the function of this gland in this age-group excision was not performed.Keywords
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