ing 2605 g was found to have bilateral supraclavicular masses at 13 days of life. He had persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn and thrombocytopenia. Delivery was by cesarean section for nonreassuring fetal status, and Apgar scores were 5 at 1 minute and 8 at 5 minutes. Initial radiographs of the chest demonstrated abnormal supraclavicular fullness bilaterally (Figure 1), and soft tis...

Thyroglossal duct cysts followed by branchial cleft anomalies are the most common congenital neck masses encountered in practice, second branchial cleft cysts and sinuses are the most common type (LaRiviere and Waldhausen in Surg Clin North Am 92(3):583-597, 2012). Although both abnormalities are common individually, but rarely seen associated in same patient as described in our case. Congenita...

Ectopic thyroid tissue is most commonly located in a single location, this being the lingual area. Presentation with two ectopic thyroid foci is quite unusual. A girl patient aged 7 years who presented with complaints of two masses in the right anterior neck and submandibular area is reported. Her growth pattern and development were normal. The masses were detected to be dual ectopic thyroid gl...

BACKGROUND An endoscope-assisted frenotomy approach (EFA) to resection of the median upper neck mass has been introduced to clinical practice. However, its technical feasibility, indications, and safety have not been fully studied. Here, we report the results of a prospective phase II clinical trial to evaluate the clinical outcomes. METHODS Twenty patients were enrolled in this trial. The ma...

A 6-week-old boy was seen in the emergency department with progressive enlargement of head and neck masses. Bilateral periauricular masses had been present since birth and had undergone recent cervical extension. A mass of the right nasolabial fold had been present since 3 weeks of age. The lesions were asymptomatic and the infant was otherwise well. Computed tomography (CT) of the head and nec...

BACKGROUND Evaluation of palpable neck masses may be a diagnostic problem in pediatric patients, with differential diagnosis including congenital, inflammatory, tumoral and traumatic lesions. Ultrasonography is usually a satisfactory method to make a correct pre-operative evaluation of neck masses, although diagnosis is often challenging for the surgeon and the radiologist and sometimes only po...

Twenty-six consecutive patients with pulsatile neck masses were studied with digital subtraction angiography (DSA) by venous injection, computed tomography (CT), and conventional direct angiography. The neck masses proved to be secondary to tortuous and ectatic carotid or subclavian arteries in 13 cases, resulted from subclavian artery aneurysms in three cases, and resulted from tumor in 10 cas...