Nápoles OL, Gonzálvez BJ, Ramón NER, Carrazana AM, Reyes JO

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

The case report of a 7 years patient is presented with a history of good health who was admitted when he was 5 years in the Southern Pediatric Hospital from Santiago de Cuba for presenting increase of volume mainly in the left lateral region of the painful neck, when ingesting foods, and fever 38 °C. After the prescribed treatment he was discharged 10 days later, but with follow up through out-patient department. After 2 and a half years he came to the Surgery Department with an increase of volume in the right lateral region of the neck. The exeresis of the tumor was carried out and the results of the pathological study confirmed that it was a thymic cervical cyst.

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