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Quiz Case 2
Yuan-Ching Guo, MD;
Pen-Yuan Chu, MD;
Rheun-Chuan Lee, MD;
Shyue-Yih Chang, MD
Taipei, Taiwan
Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2001;127:84-86.
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A 77-YEAR-OLD man presented with a 2-year history of a foreign body
sensation in the throat and an intermittent cough. He reported increasing
dysphagia when swallowing solids but denied odynophagia, hoarseness, dyspnea,
or any other medical problems. Initially, no laryngeal and hypopharyngeal
abnormalities were detected by fiberoptic laryngoscopy
(Figure 1A).
During the examination,
the patient started to cough, and a big polypoid mass (Figure 1B, arrow) suddenly appeared, seemingly from the postcricoid
region. After the patient stopped coughing, the mass disappeared from our
laryngoscopic view. Manual anterosuperior traction was then applied to the
prelaryngeal skin to distend the hypopharynx. As the scope was advanced during
this maneuver, 1 mass (Figure 1C, arrow) was found in the postcricoid region. The lesion appeared on the videoesophagogram
(Figure 2) as a smooth or . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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