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Anthony Del Signore, BS, PharmD; Tejas H. Raval, MD; Jagdish K. Dhingra, MD, FRCS
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (Dr Del Signore), and Tufts Medical Center, Boston,Massachusetts (Drs Raval and Dhingra)

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2008;134(10):1113.

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A 23-year-old woman presented with a 6-week history of progressive pain and swelling in the left side of her neck. She had been treated with an empirical 10-day course of antibiotics, without benefit. She was otherwise healthy and had no history of preceding upper respiratory tract infection or trauma. She denied upper aerodigestive tract symptoms such as hoarseness and difficulty or pain on swallowing. She also denied constitutional symptoms such as night sweats, fever, loss of weight, and decreased appetite as well as tobacco and alcohol use.

Palpation of the neck revealed a soft, somewhat ill-defined swelling deep to the sternocleidomastoid muscle at level 3 on the left side. The overlying skin was normal, and there was no tenderness. The findings of examination of the oral cavity, pharynx, and larynx were normal. Fine-needle aspiration revealed yellowish . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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