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Structure of piriform recess

Known as: Fossa, Piriform, Piriform Recess, Piriform Sinus 
A pear-shaped fossa in the wall of the laryngeal pharynx lateral to the arytenoid cartilage and medial to the lamina of the thyroid cartilage.
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Review
1995
Review
1995
Lymphoepitheliomas are malignant tumors of epithelial origin with various amounts of reactive lymphocytic infiltrate. Although… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Recurrent retropharyngeal cellulitis and recurrent suppurative thyroiditis are rare entities that share a common cause. A… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
The ability of surgery and radiotherapy to control advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck has reached its maximal… 
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
At the Roswell Park Memorial Institute, 111 patients were treated for squamous cell carcinoma of the pyriform sinus over a 15… 
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Three hundred eighty cancers of the larynx and 120 of the pyriform sinus were treated in the 15 years from 1958‐1973 at Yale‐New… 
Review
1977
Review
1977
One hundred four patients with epidermoid carcinoma of the pyriform fossa were reviewed retrospectively. Survival, local… 
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
In our patient population, cancer of the hypopharynx arose 19 times as often in the pyriform sinus as in the postcricoid space… 
1963
1963
Squamous cell carcinomas of the oral cavity and oropharynx provide suitable material for the evaluation of combined chemotherapy…