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First branchial cleft anomaly.
A 15-year-old girl presented with a cystic swelling since birth behind the ramus of the right mandible and diagnosed clinically as a dermoid cyst. Surgical exploration, however, showed that it was closely related to the external auditory canal, with an extension running medially behind the parotid gland and ending in the bony middle ear. The facial nerve was closely related to the deep part of ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Surgery
سال: 1959
ISSN: 0003-4932
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-195908000-00015