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Successful surgical treatment of a solitary parapharyngeal metastasis from thyroid cancer, using the mandibular swing-transcervical approach: Report of a case

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A 72-year-old man presented with a right parapharyngeal mass, 4 cm in diameter, which was subsequently diagnosed as a metastasis originating from papillary carcinoma of the thyroid gland. The parapharyngeal tumor was successfully removed by the mandibular swing-transcervical approach with pharyngeal reconstruction, performed using a buccal mucosal island flap based on the facial artery. His postoperative course was uneventful, and the preoperative clinical symptoms such as dysphagia and head-aches completely resolved after surgery.

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  1. Department of Surgery II, Nagoya University School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, 466-8550, Nagoya, Japan

    Tsuneo Imai, Yuji Tanaka & Nami Matsuura

  2. Department of Otolaryngology, Nagoya University School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, 466-8550, Nagoya, Japan

    Masakatsu Takahashi

  3. Department of Plastic Surgery, Nagoya University School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, 466-8550, Nagoya, Japan

    Shuhei Torii

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Imai, T., Tanaka, Y., Matsuura, N. et al. Successful surgical treatment of a solitary parapharyngeal metastasis from thyroid cancer, using the mandibular swing-transcervical approach: Report of a case. Surg Today 29, 378–381 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02483069

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