Epithelial Inclusion Cyst in a Cervical Lymph Node: Report of a Rare Entity at an Uncommon Location.

Abstract

Dear sir, Benign inclusions in lymph nodes are foci of nonneoplastic ectopic tissue, which may be of various types. The most worrisome feature of these benign inclusions in lymph node is that they may be mistakenly interpreted as tumor metastasis.[1,2] Therefore, the awareness of such an entity is all the more important in preventing overdiagnosis of a malignant lesion. We hereby present a case, clinically suspected to be tuberculosis, which surprisingly turned out to be a benign epithelial inclusion cyst within a submandibular lymph node.