Patrick DubachBurgerspital Solothurn Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Ultrasonography, Metastasis, Epipharyngeal, Head and Neck Surgery, Otorhinolaryngology
Head of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head Neck Surgery, Burgerspital Solothurn Sch
Dr. med. P. Dubach was spending a fellowship at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology of the University Hospital of Leipzig, at the IRDC and at the ICCAS institute from June 2013 until June 2014. As a clinician he holds a position as consultant in Otorhinolaryngology at the Inselspital and has been directing the ENT Outpatient Clinic of the University Hospital of Bern since 2011. After acquiring a subtitle in Head- and Neck Surgery he focused in rhinology and otology and especially in Computer Assisted Surgery in the last 3 years.
Case Report Open Access
Author(s): Olivier T Giger and Patrick DubachBurgerspital Solothurn, Schöngrünstrasse
Background: Lymphoepithelial-like carcinoma of the pharynx is a recently described sub-entity of HPV-associated pharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma. This histological entity might become an important differential diagnosis of cervical lymph node metastasis to its well known EBV-associated epipharyngeal counterpart.
Methods and results: We report on a patient presenting with a cervical cystic mass. Clinical findings and fine needle aspiration cytology was compatible with a second branchial arch cyst. Consecutive excision showed a lymph node with poorly differentiated lymphoepithelial-like squamous cell carcinoma, suggestive for a metastasis of an oropharyngeal primary. The patient underwent pandendoscopy with suspected primary in the epi- or oroph... view moreĀ»