Infecected brancial cleft cyst?

Anyone here had an infecected brancial cleft cyst?
I had a lump appear very suddenly in my neck a while ago, which was very painful, & after lots of doctors doing tests the head ent doc at royal adelaide finally told me i have a branchial cleft (a feotal abnormality that took 30 years to appear!!) cyct thats become infected. Pain is now gone but lump is still there & doc rekons there gonna cut it out. Just wondering if anyone has had this and how did it go. Have had all the biopsies done & its not cancerous at all (phew!)

That's so weird that I see this on here randomly. I just went to the doctor today with, what sounds like, the same thing. Only my lump isn't that painful. I was told it was an infection in my saliva gland and now I'm on a strong round of keflex.

I have googled it and all I'm finding is Branchial Cleft Cysts are usually in children. All the sites I've come up with have been pediatric sites.

http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic61.ht...

Now, after reading up on this, it's making me wonder about my own lump. =\

Anyway, I hope all goes well for you, I'm sorry I can't give you a better answer. =(

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