title: Incomplete branchial arch syndromes, branchial cleft cyst and vascular hamartoma in a patient with multiple neurofibromatosis.
abstract: A case report with simultaneous occurrence of neurofibromatosis, incomplete branchial arch syndromes, a branchial cleft cyst and a pseudocyst in connection with a vascular hamartoma anterior to the right ear of a 38-year-old woman is presented. A possible common pathogenesis of the vascular hamartoma and the incomplete branchial arch syndromes as well as that of the neurofibromatosis is suggested. The pseudocyst is interpreted as a branchial cleft cyst showing inflammatory changes due to a pharyngitis shortly before the preauricular tumor appeared.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001935:Branchioma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005146:Facial Asymmetry; D005260:Female; D006222:Hamartoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008339:Mandibular Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008963:Molar / Q000601:surgery; D009456:Neurofibromatosis 1 / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D011862:Radiography, Panoramic; D013577:Syndrome; D014081:Tooth Extraction