Martina Bradová, Lester D R Thompson, Martin Hyrcza, Tomáš Vaněček, Petr Grossman, Michael Michal, Veronika Hájková, Touraj Taheri, Niels Rupp, David Suster, Sunil Lakhani, Dimitar Hadži Nikolov, Radim Žalud, Alena Skálová, Michal Michal, Abbas Agaimy
Branchioma is an uncommon benign neoplasm with an adult male predominance, typically occurring in the lower neck region. Different names have been used for this entity in the past (ectopic hamartomatous thymoma, branchial anlage mixed tumor, thymic anlage tumor, biphenotypic branchioma), but currently, the term branchioma has been widely accepted. Branchioma is composed of endodermal and mesodermal lineage derivatives, in particular epithelial islands, spindle cells, and mature adipose tissue without preexistent thymic tissue or evidence of thymic differentiation...
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