A 64-year-old woman with a long-stand ing deformity of the neck presented with a rapidly enlarging neck mass following sud den turning of the head. Cervical radio graphs demonstrated a large erosion of the posterior elements of the cervical vertebra at the site of the deformity, and angiography revealed an aneurysmal sac of the left verte bral artery. The differential diagnoses of en larging neck masses associated with these ra diographic findings are discussed.
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