Cervical bronchogenic cyst

A case report and review of the Japanese literature

Abstract

A 37-year-old female was admitted to our hospital for recurrent fever and neck pain. Chest radiography and CT demonstrated a multilocular cystic lesion with niveaus at the right side of the trachea in the lower neck. Symptoms reduced following antibiotic therapy. However, infection of the cervical cyst occurred twice. Thus, the patient was operated on via a transverse neck incision. Histologically, the cyst consisted of ciliated columnar epithelium and was diagnosed as a cervical bronchogenic cyst. No recurrence has occurred for 18 months. This is the 16th reported case of cervical bronchogenic cyst in the Japanese literature and, among these, only our case shows multilocular cyst.