Successful surgical treatment of a solitary parapharyngeal metastasis from thyroid cancer, using the mandibular swing-transcervical approach: report of a case.
A 72-year-old man presented with a right parapharyngeal mass, 4 cm in diameter, which was subsequently diagnosed as a metastasis originating from papillary carcinoma of the thyroid gland. The parapharyngeal tumor was successfully removed by the mandibular swing-transcervical approach with pharyngeal reconstruction, performed using a buccal mucosal island flap based on the facial artery. His postoperative course was uneventful, and the preoperative clinical symptoms such as dysphagia and headaches completely resolved after surgery.
Imai
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Department of Surgery II, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Japan.
Tanaka
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Y
Matsuura
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N
Takahashi
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M
Torii
S
S
Funahashi
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H
D000368:Aged; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D002610:Cheek; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009061:Mouth Mucosa / Q000601:surgery; D010610:Pharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013965:Thyroidectomy