CASE HISTORY / CLINIC:
8-year-old boy with swelling and intense skin redness in the middle of the neck at the level of the hyoid and thyroid cartilages. The deglutition and mass lesion itself are very painful.


FINDINGS:
The T2 coronal image (left) demonstrates a poorly circumscribed hyperintense mass.
This mass also appears high in signal in the T2 sagittal image (right).


DIAGNOSIS:
Infected median cervical cyst


DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS:
Uninfected cyst.



Web resources:

1) Medecoinfo