pharyngeal cleft

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pharyngeal cleft

or pharyngeal groove

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These cyst can neither be a branchial cyst from second pharyngeal cleft nor be a Rathke's pouch.

Tornwaldt's cyst: an abnormal persistent remnant of notochord--a radiological study with embryological correlation

Theories regarding the pathogenesis of the various BAs include the incomplete obliteration of the pharyngeal clefts, as suggested by Ascherson in 1832, (16) the precervical sinus theory suggested by His in 1886, (17) the thymopharyngeal theory put forth by Wenglowski in 1912, (18) and cystic degeneration of lymph nodes suggested by Luschka in 1848.