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Yen-Bin Hsu, MD; Wing-Yin Li, MD; Ming-Chin Lan, MD; Pen-Yuan Chu, MD
Taipei Veterans General Hospital and National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2008;134(5):559.

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A 23-year-old man presented with a 1-year history of a slow-growing mass in the right side of his neck. He was otherwise healthy, and his medical and surgical histories were unremarkable. He denied having tenderness or numbness of the neck; however, limitation of neck movement was noted. Clinical examination revealed an 8 x 5-cm, smooth, firm mass fixed to the underlying soft tissues at levels II to IV in the right side of the neck.

T1-weighted gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance images revealed a well-circumscribed lesion in close contact with the scalene muscles and the branchial plexus (Figure 1); a mild increase in the signal intensity of the mass was observed on T2-weighted images. The mass appeared to extend from the anterior part of the right paraspinal space, with posterior displacement of the right levator scapular muscle, anterior . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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