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Gowthaman Gunabushanam, MBBS; Suman Bandhu, MD
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2005;131:646.

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A 20-year-old man presented with a 3-year history of an intermittently discharging sinus on the right side of his neck. The discharge was watery, and there was no history of pain, erythema, swelling, or fever. The findings of the physical examination were unremarkable, except for a small pigmented opening that was noted on the right side of the patient’s neck, just anterior to the sternomastoid muscle. Sinography was performed under fluoroscopic guidance, followed by computed tomography.

The sinogram demonstrated a linear contrast-filled tract (Figure 1 [arrow] and Figure 2 [single arrow]) extending from the external sinus in a posterior and superior direction to open in the pharynx at the level of the first cervical vertebra. Contrast was subsequently noted in the pharynx (Figure 2 [double arrows]). An area of hyperdensity (Figure 3 [arrow]) was noted in the carotid space on the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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