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case_images: CT scan of the neck showed a multiloculated fluid density lesion with enhancing septae in the left parapharyngeal space, extending from the level of mandible up to C7 vertebral level.
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case_images: CT scan of the neck (Figure 1) showed a multiloculated fluid density lesion with enhancing septae in the left parapharyngeal space, extending from the level of mandible up to C7 vertebral level.
case_images: Surgical specimen showing cyst with fibrous cord tracking inferiorly up to the superior mediastinum.
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case_images: The mass was completely excised (Figure 2).
case_images: Histopathological examination revealed multiple cystic spaces lined by cuboidal to squamous epithelium. The cyst contained numerous cholesterol clefts with subepithelium showing fibrocartilagenous tissue, foreign body corpuscles, and Hassall's corpuscles.
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case_images: The cyst contained numerous cholesterol clefts with subepithelium showing fibrocartilagenous tissue, foreign body corpuscles, and Hassall's corpuscles thereby diagnosed as a thymic cyst (Figure 3).