Abstract
A case of thyroid carcinoma in the parapharyngeal space is reported in this paper. The patient was a 49-year-old woman with a 6-year history of a progressively enlarging mass in the right lateral portion of the pharynx. The parapharyngeal space was explored by an intra-oral approach and a 3 × 4 × 7 cm ovoid mass was removed. Histologic examination revealed the mass to be a papillary adenocarcinoma of the thyroid tissue. On reviewing literature on this subject, cases of such parapharyngeal tumors were found to be extremely rare. The etiology and pathogenesis of this occurrence is not known.
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