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Ruptured Branchial Cleft Cyst Presenting As Acute Thyroid Infection

Gary L. Montgomery, M. D.

Sections of Infectious Disease and Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics

Thomas V. N. Ballantine, M. D.

Section of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery

Martin B. Kleiman, M. D.

Sections of Infectious Disease and Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics

James C. Wright, M. D.

Sections of Infectious Disease and Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics

Janet Reynolds, M. T. (ASCP)

Department of Pathology, Indiana University School of Medicine and the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, Indiana

A case is presented of a child with signs of recurrent acute thyroid infection which was found to result from rupture of an infected branchial cleft cyst abscess. This association has not previously been reported. A review of the bacterial etiol ogies of suppurative thyroiditis in childhood is presented.

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 21, No. 6, 380-383 (1982)
DOI: 10.1177/000992288202100614
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