Bilateral second branchial cleft cysts without any associated congenital abnormality: a case report

Year 2003, Volume: 11 Issue: 6, 179 - 182, 24.12.2003

Mustafa Deniz Yılmaz Ali Altuntaş Fatma Aktepe Çiğdem Tokyol

Abstract

A thirty-year-old male patient with bilateral second branchial cleft cysts is presented, in whom no association was found with any other congenital abnormality, in particular branchio-oto-renal syndrome. He had a complaint of painless swelling on both sides of the neck. Physical and radiological examinations showed bilateral branchial cleft cysts. A coexisting congenital syndrome could not be documented despite investiga- tions including physical examination, blood biochem- istry and complete blood count, audiologic tests, temporal bone computed tomography, and abdominal and renal ultrasonography. Surgical excision was performed on both sides with a three-week interval.Histopathologic examination confirmed the diagnosis.The postoperative period was uneventful, with no recurrence during a follow-up period of 12 months.

Keywords

Branchial region/abnormalities, branchioma/ surgery, cysts, head and neck neoplasms/diagnosis/surgery

Eşlik eden başka bir doğuştan anormalliği olmayan bir hastada iki taraflı ikinci brankiyal yarık kisti

Abstract

İki taraflı ikinci brankiyal yarık kisti saptanan 30 ya- flındaki erkek hasta sunuldu; olgunun ilginç yanı, kistlere baflka bir doğufltan anormalliğin, özellikle de brankiyo-oto-renal sendromun efllik etmemesiydi. Hasta boynun iki tarafında ağrısız flifllik flikayetiyle baflvurdu. Fizik muayene ve radyolojik incelemeler sonucunda iki taraflı brankiyal yarık kisti tanısı kondu. Genel fizik muayene, rutin kan testleri, odyo- lojik değerlendirme, temporal kemik bilgisayarlı to- mografisi, abdominal ve renal ultrasonografi ile arafl- tırılmasına rağmen hastada baflka bir doğufltan anormalliğe rastlanmadı. Boyundaki kistlere üç haf- ta arayla cerrahi uygulandı. Patolojik değerlendirme sonucu brankiyal yarık kistiyle uyumlu idi. Ameliyat sonrasında herhangi bir sorunu olmayan hastanın 12 aylık izleminde nüks görülmedi

Keywords

Brankiyal bölge/anormallik, brankiyom/cerrahi, kist, bafl-boyun neoplazileri/tanı/cerrahi

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