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BMC Ear, Nose and Throat Disorders BioMed Central Case report Open Access A thyroid tumor extending to the parapharyngeal space Fikret Cetik†1, Demet Yazici*†1 and Aysun Uguz2 Address: 1Depatment of Otolaryngology, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey and 2Department of Pathology, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey Email: Fikret Cetik - fikretcetik@.tr; Demet Yazici* - demetyazici@; Aysun Uguz - aysunuz@ * Corresponding author †Equal contributors Published: 01 March 2006 Received: 16 August 2005 Accepted: 01 March 2006 BMC Ear, Nose and Throat Disorders2006, 6:3 doi:10.1186/1472-6815-6-3 This article is available from: /1472-6815/6/3 © 2006Cetik et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The metastasis of papillary thyroid carcinoma to the parapharyngeal space is rare and discussed in the English literature before. Encountering a parapharyngeal mass with cystic appearance on imaging, one should rule out thyroid malignancy as differential diagnosis. Case presentation: The case presented here is a 22-year-old woman who was referred to our clinic with complaints of painless neck mass, dysphagia and hoarseness for two years. After radiologic and pathological examina