Congenital first branchial cleft fistula 2.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 9 Congenital first branchial cleft fistula 2 [Keywords:] branchial cleft fistula Branchial cleft cyst branchial cleft fistula and embryonic development is a congenital malformation, I am admitted to hospital the first two branchial cleft fistula in 7 cases by angiography and / or surgical pathology. In which the Department of a family of four cases of the disease, yet rarely reported is a retrospective analysis and literature review in order to increase awareness of this disease. 1 Data and methods 1.1 General Information choice in our hospital from June 1988 to June 2006 admitted to the 2nd branchial cleft fistula in 7 patients, 5 males and 2 females; treatment age at 2 years to 34 years old, with an average age of 23.29 years old, are childhood neck fistula hole was found, there are bilateral fistula holes in 1 case, unilateral with fistula holes in 6 cases, of which 6 cases the right side, left in 2 cases; fistula holes in the sternocleidomastoid muscle on the 1 / 3 edge in 3 cases, in the sternocleidomastoid muscle, the lower 1 / 3 front, 4 cases; occasional liquid flow of 6 cases, no flow of fluid in 1 case, there were five cases of fluid flow were fistula angiography. 1.2 treatment 5 cases of six sides for resection and pathology confirmed no recurrence after operation. 1.3 cases of familial Example 1, female, 25 years old. After the birth of a fistula was found on each side of the neck hole, grows gradually clear that the left side of the age of 18 holes have clean water like fluid fistula outflow, increasing year by year, on the right from time to time also have a small amount of fluid outflow, cold or even worse, when eating, or even loud speech is also sap their own sense of unsightly, they dare not eat in the cafeteria, to hospital for treatment. Family history: the husband without the disease, his son two years old, the Ministry of the right side of the neck is also a fistula hole, no flow of fluid, the probe is about 0.