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Review
. 2021 Jul;35(7):648-650.
doi: 10.13201/j.issn.2096-7993.2021.07.016.

[Diagnosis and treatment of the fourth branchial fissure: a clinical report of 1 case and literature review]

[Article in Chinese]
Yuanyuan Lu, Yijuan Zhang, Haidong Zhang, Shanchun Gong, Dachun Dai, Bo Xu, Zhenkun Yu
Review

[Diagnosis and treatment of the fourth branchial fissure: a clinical report of 1 case and literature review]

[Article in Chinese]
Yuanyuan Lu et al. Lin Chuang Er Bi Yan Hou Tou Jing Wai Ke Za Zhi. 2021 Jul.

Abstract

The patient repeatedly suffer from pain in the left side neck for 4 years and had 1-2 recurrence per year. We used neck ultrasound and neck CT examination to find an abnormal soft tissue lumps exist in the patient's left neck root to the trachea esophageal ditch. Diagnostic analysis combines embryogenesis and anatomy, and the diagnosis results are infection with the fourth branchial fissure. The lesion site was completely excisioned with full hemp surgery, the incision showed I type healing after surgery, and there was no recurrence after six months of follow-up.

Keywords: diagnostic errors; fourth branchial fissure; surgical procedures,operative.

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The authors of this article and the planning committee members and staff have no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.

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