Vol.97 No.7 contentsPRACTICA OTO-RHINO-LARYNGOLOGICA
Vol. 97 No. 7 July 2004
A Case of Cervical Thymoma
Yo Kishimoto, Kazuhiko Shoji, Satoshi Ikegami,
Shinji Suzuki and Tsuyoshi Kojima
(Tenri Hospital)
Miyuki Marumo
(Hyogo Prefectural Amagasaki Hospital)
We report a case of cervical thymoma in a 59-year-old woman. She visited our hospital for an anterior neck mass. Ultrasonography revealed a mass in the right lobe of the thyroid gland, and it was diagnosed as a thyroid tumor. The tumor was resected, and the histopathological diagnosis was cervical thymoma.
Key words : cervical thymoma, thyroid tumor