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Diseases of the Pharynx
Pharynx is a muscular tube that connects the nasal
cavity to the larynx and oesophagus.
• Extend from skull base to the inlet of
esophagus (level of C4)
Common passage of respiratory and
digestive tract
Anatomy of pharynx
• The muscles of the pharynx consist of the circular fibers of the constrictor
muscles that surround the longitudinally running fibers of the
stylopharyngeus, salpingopharyngeus, and palatopharyngeus Medial muscles.
• The surface of nasopharynx is covered by the same pseudostratified columnar
epithelium that is found in the nasal cavity
• The oropharynx and pharynx proper
lined by largely non-keratinizing stratified squamous epithelium.
Diseases of pharynx
Neoplastic
Malignant
Benign
Non
neoplastic
Congenital anomalies
• Cystic lesions
Thornwaldt cysts : are midline nasopharyngeal cysts that are thought to arise
from obstruction at the Thornwaldt bursa, at the junction of the remnants of
the notochord and the pharyngeal ectoderm
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Diseases%20of%20the%20Pharynx-1.pptx

  • 1. Diseases of the Pharynx
  • 2. Pharynx is a muscular tube that connects the nasal cavity to the larynx and oesophagus. • Extend from skull base to the inlet of esophagus (level of C4) Common passage of respiratory and digestive tract
  • 3. Anatomy of pharynx • The muscles of the pharynx consist of the circular fibers of the constrictor muscles that surround the longitudinally running fibers of the stylopharyngeus, salpingopharyngeus, and palatopharyngeus Medial muscles.
  • 4.
  • 5. • The surface of nasopharynx is covered by the same pseudostratified columnar epithelium that is found in the nasal cavity • The oropharynx and pharynx proper lined by largely non-keratinizing stratified squamous epithelium.
  • 7. Congenital anomalies • Cystic lesions Thornwaldt cysts : are midline nasopharyngeal cysts that are thought to arise from obstruction at the Thornwaldt bursa, at the junction of the remnants of the notochord and the pharyngeal ectoderm