Giant epidermoid cyst of the anterior neck with an unusual magnetic resonance pattern

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The article presents a clinical case of diagnosis and successful surgical treatment of a giant epidermoid cyst of the anterior surface of the neck with an unusual magnetic resonance pattern in the form of calibrated spherical structures. The issues of differential diagnosis of epidermoid cyst and dermoid cyst and the reasons for the formation of intracavitary spheres are addressed

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E. B. Topolnitskiy

Siberian State Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia;
Tomsk Regional Clinical Hospital;
National Research Tomsk State Universitу,

ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5674-0177

2 Moskovskiy Trakt, Tomsk 634050;
96 Ivana Chernykh St., Tomsk 634069;
36 Leninskiy Prospekt, Tomsk 634050

Russian Federation

N. A. Shefer

Siberian State Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia;
Tomsk Regional Clinical Hospital

Author for correspondence.
Email: NAschefer@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0011-8370

Nikolay Anatolyevich Shefer 

2 Moskovskiy Trakt, Tomsk 634050; 
96 Ivana Chernykh St., Tomsk 634069

Russian Federation

C. V. Usoltseva

Siberian State Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia

ORCID iD: 0009-0009-9240-2309

2 Moskovskiy Trakt, Tomsk 634050

Russian Federation

D. V. Kapitanova

Siberian State Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia

ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9588-1637

2 Moskovskiy Trakt, Tomsk 634050

Russian Federation

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