we report five cases of duplicated external ear canal with especial attention to its histology and surgical care of facial nerve for their complete resection. these five patients were selected from 50 cases of first bronchial cleft anomalies including atretic external ear canals, preauricular fistula, cyst and sinuses. the characteristic histopathology and clinical features such as external ope...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS The aim of this study was to evaluate the indications for, and outcomes and limitations of, OK-432 therapy in various otolaryngological cystic diseases. STUDY DESIGN A retrospective clinical study at Yamagata University School of Medicine and the Fukase Clinic in Japan. METHODS Between April 1996 and November 2009 we tried OK-432 therapy in 148 patients with otolaryngo...

In this article, we report a rare case of a cervical cystic vagal schwannoma mimicking a type 3 second branchial cleft cyst clinically, radiologically and cytologically. Although schwannoma is rare, it should be considered in the differential diagnosis of cystic neck masses. This article suggests that Doppler ultrasonography, computed tomography and fine needle aspiration biopsy findings may no...

Abstract Background The oral lymphoepithelial cyst (LEC) is a rare, soft-tissue, developmental cyst, initially presented by Gold in 1962 as “branchial cleft cyst”. It may occur the pancreas, tongue, neck, and other regions of cavity. No study has been reported Pakistan Karachi reporting case submandibular region. This rare LEC to help clinicians bring into their differential diagnosis for lesio...

Methods: This is the sixth reported case of a benign parotid teratoid tumor. A fourteen-year-old boy presented with a slowly enlarging left preauricular mass over a six month period. On exam he had a mobile cystic parotid mass just anterior to his left tragus with an associated small preauricular pit. His facial nerve was intact. MRI demonstrated high uptake on T1 but low signal on T2 weighted ...

SUMMARY We report the MR findings of parapharyngeal branchial cleft cyst manifesting as multiple, lower cranial nerve palsies in a 35-year-old woman. On MR images, a well-marginated cystic mass was detected in the right parapharyngeal space, with displacement of both the right internal carotid artery and the right internal jugular vein on the posterolateral side. The cyst contained a whitish fl...

The objective of the present paper is to describe the clinical presentation, diagnostic process, surgical treatment, and outcome of 2 patients with first branchial cleft anomaly. The first case was an 8-year-old girl presented with an elastic lesion located in the left infra-auricular area, in close relation with the lobule, duplicating the external auditory canal. The magnetic resonance imagin...