A rare case of complete second arch branchial fistula in a 7-year-old child

Branchial fistulae are formed due to the abnormal persistence of the embryonic branchial clefts. Complete branchial fistula with internal and external opening is extremely rare. We report a rare case of complete second arch branchial fistulae in a 7-year-old boy, which was confirmed by a fistulogram...

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Autores principales: Shankar, Venkateswara Gomathi, Babu, Thirunavukkarasu Arun, Swami, Hartimath Basavanand
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3700165/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23833506
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-5950.111393
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author Shankar, Venkateswara Gomathi
Babu, Thirunavukkarasu Arun
Swami, Hartimath Basavanand
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description Branchial fistulae are formed due to the abnormal persistence of the embryonic branchial clefts. Complete branchial fistula with internal and external opening is extremely rare. We report a rare case of complete second arch branchial fistulae in a 7-year-old boy, which was confirmed by a fistulogram. The tract was completely excised and the patient was successfully treated.
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spelling pubmed-37001652013-07-05 A rare case of complete second arch branchial fistula in a 7-year-old child Shankar, Venkateswara Gomathi Babu, Thirunavukkarasu Arun Swami, Hartimath Basavanand Natl J Maxillofac Surg Case Report Branchial fistulae are formed due to the abnormal persistence of the embryonic branchial clefts. Complete branchial fistula with internal and external opening is extremely rare. We report a rare case of complete second arch branchial fistulae in a 7-year-old boy, which was confirmed by a fistulogram. The tract was completely excised and the patient was successfully treated. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3700165/ /pubmed/23833506 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-5950.111393 Text en Copyright: © National Journal of Maxillofacial Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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A rare case of complete second arch branchial fistula in a 7-year-old child
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title_fullStr A rare case of complete second arch branchial fistula in a 7-year-old child
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title_short A rare case of complete second arch branchial fistula in a 7-year-old child
title_sort rare case of complete second arch branchial fistula in a 7-year-old child
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3700165/
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