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Pharyngo-oesophageal haemangioma with a positive cough impulse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

L. J. Hollis*
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Northampton General Hospital, Northampton, UK.
M. El-Alami
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Northampton General Hospital, Northampton, UK.
R. Pyke
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Northampton General Hospital, Northampton, UK.
*
Address for correspondence: Mr L. J. Hollis, 65 Eastern Cottages, Bishopstone, Aylesbury, Bucks HP17 8SH.

Abstract

Benign tumours of both the pharynx and oesophagus are rarely seen, cavernous haemangiomas even less so. We present a case in which a large lesion was the cause of non-specific symptoms but which only appeared intermittently on nasendoscopic examination of the pharynx.

Type
Clinical Records
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1999

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