title: Pharyngeal recess
text: # Pharyngeal recess
  
  Behind the ostium of the eustachian tube (ostium pharyngeum tuba auditiva) is a deep recess, the pharyngeal recess (fossa of Rosenmüller).
  
  ## Clinical significance
  
  At the base of this recess is the retropharyngeal lymph node (the Node of Rouvier). This is clinically significant in that it may be involved in certain head and neck cancers, notably nasopharyngeal cancer.
  
  