Calcific tendinitis of the longus colli muscle (CTLC) is an inflammatory disease caused by the deposition of calcium hydroxyapatite crystal in longus colli muscle and its tendon. The incidence of it is rare, only a few cases have been reported so far, and its common symptoms and sings were neck pain, limitation of neck motion, dysphagia and odynophagia and so on. Clinically, it can be masqueraded as retropharyngeal abscess on account of its non-specific clinical presentations and rare incidence. We encountered a 39-year-old woman with five days duration of progressive bilateral neck pain, limitation of neck motion that was finally diagnosed as retropharyngeal abscess accompanied by the CTLC. We report this rare and didactic case with a brief review of relevant literature.
Neoplasm from the accessory parotid glands (APG) rarely occurs, and its malignancy rate is higher than other salivary glands. The B-cell lymphoma from APG is rare, with less than 2% of all malignancy in APG. The mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma, a subtype of B-cell lymphoma, tends to be a localized disease with an indolent clinical course. It is very rare for MALT lymphoma to develop bilaterally in the APG and the parotid glands without an autoimmune disease. A 43-year-old male presented with superficial masses in the bilateral infra-zygomatic regions, and was pathologically confirmed as MALT lymphoma by excisional biopsy. We report this very rare and interesting case with a brief literature review.
Relapsing polychondritis is a rare multisystemic disease which affects cartilaginous tissues of auricles, nose, larynx, trachea and joints as well as proteoglycan-rich structures. The disease is characterized by repetitive inflammatory and destructive episodes. Chondritis most frequently involves external ear, but the spectrum of clinical presentations may vary from intermittent episodes of painful chondritis and ocular inflammation, to organ or even life-threatening manifestations like cardiovascular complications and airway collapse. Its pathogenesis in not determined completely. In the treatment, main medication is a corticosteroid and immunosuppressive drugs represent a second-choice treatment. Authors have recently experienced a case of relapsing polychondritis in a 42 year old man who had ear fullness as an initial manifestation. We report this case with a review of the literature. (J
Inverted papilloma is a pathologic subtype of papilloma that mainly occurs in the sinonasal tract. Laryngeal inverted papilloma is extremely rare, and only a few cases have been reported so far. A 78-year-old male visited our clinic complaining of voice change that lasted five months. The rigid laryngoscopy showed multiple exophytic papillomatous masses in both vocal folds, and the left false vocal fold showed slight protruding appearance without a definite mass shadow. We performed laryngeal microsurgery with CO<sub>2</sub> laser. While the masses in both true vocal folds were pathologically diagnosed as fungiform papillomas, the left false vocal fold was diagnosed as an inverted type. We report this very rare and unique case of laryngeal papilloma with a relevant literature review.
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