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Endoscopic view showing the tongue base cyst and its contact with the larynx.
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The digital tongue base palpation revealed a submucosal soft midline mass (Figure 1).
MRI in sagittal view shows a large cystic mass at the tongue base.
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MRI showed a cystic lesion of the tongue base that drove back the epiglottis (Figure 2).