Large hypopharyngeal polyp producing intermittent dysphagia and acute airway obstruction.
A 65-yr-old man who developed sudden respiratory arrest was found to have a long, smooth, esophageal filling defect on esophagogram. Endoscopy eventually proved this to be a large esophageal polypoid lesion that had arisen in the hypopharynx and extended to the midesophagus. He was successfully treated with a lateral pharyngotomy and excision of the hypopharyngeal polyp.
D000368:Aged; D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000209:etiology*; D003680:Deglutition Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007012:Hypopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D010610:Pharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D011127:Polyps / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D011859:Radiography