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Benjamin Liess, MD; Mike Yao, MD; Mahmood Mafee, MD
University of Missouri–Columbia (Dr Liess) and University of Illinois at Chicago (Drs Yao and Mafee)

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2005;131:275.

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A healthy 9-month-old African American girl was found to have a mass in the right side of her neck that had been present since birth. There was no history of trauma. On examination, a raised mass that was smaller than 5 mm in greatest dimension was observed in the skin on the right side of the neck, anterior and superficial to the sternocleidomastoid muscle. The mass was thought to be the opening to a fistula tract, but there was no history of drainage from this site. No other neck masses were palpated. The findings of the rest of the head and neck examination were within normal limits. The patient underwent a computed tomographic scan that revealed a poorly defined mass in the right side of the neck, extending inferiorly from the level of the parotid gland at the angle of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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