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Erdinc Aygenc1, Fatih Fidan, Cafer Ozdem

  • 1Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Numune Training and Research Hospital, Second Otolaryngology, Ergin sok 27/11 Mebusevleri, 06580 Ankara, Turkey. eaygenc@turk.net

The British Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
|January 7, 2004
PubMed

Lymphatic malformations are rare benign congenital lesions. A 28-month-old girl presented with a parapharyngeal lymphatic malformation. A cystic lesion had been diagnosed at 18 weeks' gestation by ultrasonography and she had been followed up conservatively until her referral to our department. We used a transcervical approach to excise the parapharyngeal lesion and 1 year later, there was no sign of recurrence.

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