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Satish Govindaraj, MD; Rod Rezaee, MD; Adam Pearl, MD; Peter M. Som; Mark L. Urken, MD
Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2003;129:1013.

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AN OBESE 53-year-old woman presented to her primary physician for evaluation of a chronic headache. Appropriate workup included a computed tomographic scan of the head. Although there was no evidence of a pathologic condition to explain her headaches, there was an incidental finding of a retropharyngeal mass. Based on this finding, the patient underwent a computed tomographic scan of the neck (Figure 1 and Figure 2) and was subsequently referred to our institution.

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She denied any complaints of dysphagia, odynophagia, dyspnea, weight loss, or hoarseness. On physical examination, a nonpulsatile, submucosal oropharyngeal mass was noted. Because of the patient's morbidly obese state, no detectable neck mass was evident on examination. The lesion was resected, and the results were successful. Interestingly, after surgery, the patient attested to a resolution . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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