Yolk sac tumour is germ cell tumour commonly found in children and infants under three years of age in its pure form with a good prognosis. The commonest location for the yolk sac tumour is gonads i.e. testis and gonads. Yolk sac tumour is rarely reported in extra- gonadal locations. Parapharyngeal space is an uncommon site for mature teratoma and very few cases have been reported in adults and...

Background: Detection of benign parapharyngeal mass is very crucial for the management patients.
 Objective: The purpose present study was to evaluate CT scan detection mass.
 Methodology: This cross-sectional carried out in Department Radiology and Imaging at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh from July 2009 April 2011 a period around two years. All clinic...

A 51-year-old woman presented with dysphagia, nocturnal dyspnoea, right-sided infra-auricular pain, and a feeling of an oropharyngeal lump of several months’ duration. A mass covered by pharyngeal mucosa was seen on examination of the pharynx, at the level of the right tonsil, which crossed the midline, and extended from the epipharynx to the right hypopharynx. No cervical lymph adenopathies we...

PURPOSE To subclassify parapharyngeal extension in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) and investigate its prognostic value and staging categories based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). METHODS AND MATERIALS Data from 1504 consecutive NPC patients treated with definitive-intent radiotherapy were analyzed retrospectively. Sites of parapharyngeal extension were defined by MRI. Overall survival (...

Clear cell sarcoma (CCS), initially named malignant melanoma of soft parts, is a rare malignant neoplasm typically involving deep soft tissue of the extremities, in close proximity to tendons and aponeuroses. Here we describe a case of clear cell sarcoma of the right parapharyngeal region in a young female aged 20 years. MRI detected a mass about 4.4 cm×3.4 cm×3.0 cm, located in the right parap...

a 4.5 years old boy with left postero superior lateral neck mass admitted to shahid rahnemoon hospital in yazd. the mass had been noticed 2 years ago and there was no improvement after three times antibiotic therapy. on physical examination there were two masses on the neck. one of them was approximately 3×4 cm and the other was 2×2 cm. on of the masses was located in the left posterior auricul...

Kimura's disease (KD) is a rare idiopathic condition of unknown etiology. The disease is characterized by swelling and lesions in the head and neck region, with involvement of the subcutaneous soft tissue, major salivary glands and lymph nodes. Patients almost always have eosinophilia and elevated serum immunoglobulin E levels. The diagnosis is established by biopsy. KD is usually self limiting...