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79th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery

German Society of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery

30.04. - 04.05.2008, Bonn

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Cervical thymic fistula of an adolescent

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  • corresponding author Hannes Kutta - Clinic for Otorhinolaryngology, University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
  • author Hansjoerg Schaefer - Institute for Pathology, University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
  • author Adrian Muenscher - Clinic for Otorhinolaryngology, University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
  • author Soeren Wenzel - Clinic for Otorhinolaryngology, University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

German Society of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. 79th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. Bonn, 30.04.-04.05.2008. Düsseldorf, Köln: German Medical Science; 2008. Doc08hno55

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Published: July 8, 2008

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We report a case of a 13 year old male patient with a thymic fistula of the neck. After preoperative ultrasound and magnetic resonance tomography diagnostic, the patient underwent an uncomplicated subtotal extirpation of the tumor under general anaesthesia. This non malignant tumor-entity should be taken into differential diagnosis of head and neck tumors specially in children and younger patients with which the oto-rhino-laryngologist is confronted.