A 28-year-old man with a ruptured right Achilles tendon underwent primary end-to-end suture immediately after injury. Painful swelling developed 6 months later, and a lump with discharge from a sinus was observed during physical assessment. Sonographic examination with a 10-MHz linear-array transduc
Sonographic discovery of a pharyngocele
✍ Scribed by Chevallier, Patrick; Motamedi, Jean-Paul; Marcy, Pierre-Yves; Foa, Cyril; Padovani, Bernard; Bruneton, Jean-No�l
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 197 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0091-2751
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✦ Synopsis
Cervical sonography was performed in a 25-year-old man who was referred to our department because of the recent appearance of a left anterolateral cervical mass. This mass had the sonographic properties of air; it communicated with and extended the piriform sinus as well as deformed the left lamina of the thyroid cartilage. A preliminary diagosis of left pharyngocele was confirmed by CT. To our knowledge, this is the first sonographic description of such an abnormality.
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