Volume : VI, Issue : IX, September - 2017

Clinical profile of lateral neck swellings

Saima Tabassum, L. N Garg, Nitish Baisakhiya, Shaista Tabassum

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 The study was carried out in ENT department of MMIMSR. The sample size comprised 50 patients with lateral neck swellings. Out of 50 cases presenting as lateral neck swellings, 27 were neoplastic (54%), of which 7 were benign while rest were malignant. The benign lateral neck masses comprised lymphangioma/cystic hygroma (n=3), Masson’s hemangioma (n=2), parathyroid adenoma (n=1) and vagal schwannomas (n=1).  Malignant nodes constituted most of the neoplastic lateral neck swellings, out of which secondary metastatis was seen in 66.6% whereas only 7.4% lymph nodes showed evidence of primary nodal malignancy.

Non-neoplastic lateral neck swellings constituted 23 cases (46%). Tubercular pathology was found in 52.1% (n=12). Salivary gland lesions constituted constituted the second most common diagnosis among non-neoplastic swellings in our study (43.4%). 1 patient was diagnosed as having anchial cyst. 

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Saima Tabassum, L.N Garg, Nitish Baisakhiya, Shaista Tabassum, Clinical profile of lateral neck swellings, GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : VOLUME-6, ISSUE-9, SEPTEMBER-2017

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