we have studied the patients who had a neck mass on presentation in five medical centers of tehran univ. of medical sciences (infectious disease department, ent department, dentistry faculty, cancer institute) during a period of 14 months. sixty patients, 20 women and 40 men, were eligible for our study. all patients underwent clinical and paraclinical work up and finally had histologic diagnos...

Background: Neck mass is one of the most common clinical findings in all age groups. Differential diagnosis of masses includes a range of pathologies from congenital to infectious or neoplasm. Understanding the risk factors of neck masses can help us to assess them properly. The purpose of this study is to obtain the epidemiological and clinical features of different neck masses in Kerman, Iran...

conclusions the age and location of neck masses are the most important variables. the data in this study showed that the neoplastic lesions (including metastatic lesions) were the most common neck masses and the anterior triangle was the most common anatomical location. in addition, age can play an important role in differential diagnosis. therefore, any mass in the neck, especially in older pa...

the fna (fine needle aspiration) procedure is simple, inexpensive, available and a safe method for the diagnosis of a neck mass. fna has numerous advantages over open surgical biopsies as an initial diagnostic tool; therefore we decided to compare the accuracy of this method with open biopsy. this retrospective as well as descriptive study comparing preoperative fna results with existing data i...

Introduction  Neck masses include a wide variety of diagnostic possibilities, with more than 60 etiologies that depend on clinical aspects such as age, location and time of disease progression. The interview and physical examination guide research that cross the neck masses in pediatric patients in 3 groups: infectious / inflammatory, and neoplastic embryonic remnants. The aim of this study was...

the classification and imaging appearances of vascular masses of the head and neck are reviewed. the radiological appearances of congenital vascular masses (infantile haemangiomas and other congenital vascular tumours, high-flow and low-flow vascular malformations), acquired vascular masses (benign and malignant tumours, non-neoplastic lesions) and other hypervascular masses are described and i...

a 4.5 years old boy with left postero superior lateral neck mass admitted to shahid rahnemoon hospital in yazd. the mass had been noticed 2 years ago and there was no improvement after three times antibiotic therapy. on physical examination there were two masses on the neck. one of them was approximately 3×4 cm and the other was 2×2 cm. on of the masses was located in the left posterior auricul...

Background and Objective: Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is well accepted as a useful diagnostic technique in the management of adult patients with head and neck lumps. But, until recently, very few reports have been obtained regarding the role of FNAC in nonthyroidal neck masses in children. Hence, the objective of our study was to determine the diagnostic value of fine needle aspirati...

background and objective: fine needle aspiration cytology (fnac) is well accepted as a useful diagnostic technique in the management of adult patients with head and neck lumps. but, until recently, very few reports have been obtained regarding the role of fnac in nonthyroidal neck masses in children. hence, the objective of our study was to determine the diagnostic value of fine needle aspirati...