下咽癌国内统计占全身恶性肿瘤的0.15%~0.24%,占头颈部恶性肿瘤的2%左右~([1])。下咽癌发病位置特殊,恶性度高,预后差,早期即可侵犯颈深部组织;易发生淋巴结转移,总体转移率在70%左右,主要转移部位为颈部淋巴结,罕有转移到腋窝淋巴结的文献报道。2014年5月,我科收治下咽癌伴腋窝淋巴结转移患者1例,报告如下。1资料与方法1.1临床资料患者,女,52岁,因甲状腺左叶切 Hypopharyngeal cancer accounts for 0.15% ~ 0.24% of the total body malignant tumors, accounting for about 2% of head and neck cancer ~ ([1]). Hypopharyngeal carcinoma has a special location, high malignancy and poor prognosis, which can invade the deep cervical tissue in the early stage. Lymph node metastasis is easy to occur with an overall metastasis rate of about 70%. The main metastatic sites are cervical lymph nodes and rare metastasis to axillary lymph nodes Reported. May 2014, our department admitted to patients with hypopharyngeal cancer with axillary lymph node metastasis in 1 case, the report is as follows. 1 Materials and Methods 1.1 Clinical data Patients, female, 52 years old, due to left thyroidectomy