Clinicopathological study of head and neck swellings in patients attending ENT OPD
Keywords:
Clinicopathological, head and neck swellings, OPDAbstract
A thorough clinical history and a good clinical examination including the findings of inspection and palpation are key factors for near accurate provisional diagnosis but histopathological examination is the only gold standard for confirmation of diagnosis till date for the head neck swellings. It has been observed that there was slightly higher ratio of female patients attending the OPD with complaints of neck swelling. Fine needle aspiration cytology is a quick, convenient, easy to perform, and fairly accurate method for cytological diagnosis on an outpatient basis. Importance of this study, particularly in the context of neck masses, lies in the fact that a preoperative cytological diagnosis of a benign lesion in a high-risk patient may obviate the need of a surgical intervention. Preoperative diagnosis of certain conditions like lymphoma and inflammatory pathology may also escape from unnecessary surgeries. It can be concluded that lymph node swellings are the most common amongst the neck swelling by far and on its cytological examination reactive lymphadenitis being the prevalent one. It can also be said that FNAC is the most reliable method for diagnosing the TB lymphadenitis and thyroid swellings.
Downloads
References
Afridi S, Malik K, Wahed I. Role of fine needle aspiration biopsy and cytology in breast lumps. J college of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan. 1995; 5:75-7
Bhushan Lal, Kuldeep Thaku, Ravinder Singh Minhas, Madhuri Dadhwal, Mukesh Surya, Shweta Sharma, Disha Sharma, Pankaj Chauhan, Deepa Thomas, Niti Sharma, Vikrant Singh Ghiyali Medico Research Chronicles 4 (05), 531-538, 2018
Celeste NP, Williams JF. Fine needle aspiration biopsy of the head and neck. USA: Butterworth Heinemann; 1996. p 1–13.
Gupta A, Jamwal PS. A Clinicopathological Study of Cervical Lymphadenopathy. Ann. Int. Med. Den. Res. 2019; 5(6): EN05-EN08
Ha EJ, Baek JH, Lee JH, Kim JK, Shong YK. Clinical significance of vagus nerve variation in radiofrequency ablation of thyroid nodules. Eur Radiol. 2011 Oct;21(10):2151-7
Harach HR, William ED. Fibrous thyroiditis. An immunopathological study. Histopathology 1983, 7: 739-751
KresnikE,Mikosch P, Gallowitsch HJ, Kogler D, Wiesser S, Heinisch M et al. European Journal of nuclear medicine.2001; 28: 816-21. 2017Seifert G, Donath
Pradeep Kumar Singh, Amit Kumar Singh, Dheeraj Kumar Singh, IOSRJDMS, Volume 16, Issue 1 Ver. VIII (January 2017), pp 38-41
Russel RCG, William NS, Bulstrode CJK. Bailey and Love’s short practice of surgery. 24th edition. London: Arnold; 2004
Scott-Brown’s Otorhinolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, Vol.3, 8th Edition,2018, chap -39, 607-622.
Svante R Orell, Gregory F Street, Darrel Whitaker.Fine needle aspiration cytology, Elsevier, 4 th edition, chapter 5 with Peter van Heerde and John Miliauskas, Page 83119
Watkinson JC, Wilson JA, Gaze M, Stell PM, Maran AGD. Stell and Maran’s Head and neck surgery, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, 4th edition, chapter 2; 2000. p 20-21
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
Copyright (c) 2022 International journal of health sciences
![Creative Commons License](http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/4.0/88x31.png)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Articles published in the International Journal of Health Sciences (IJHS) are available under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Authors retain copyright in their work and grant IJHS right of first publication under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles in this journal, and to use them for any other lawful purpose.
Articles published in IJHS can be copied, communicated and shared in their published form for non-commercial purposes provided full attribution is given to the author and the journal. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
This copyright notice applies to articles published in IJHS volumes 4 onwards. Please read about the copyright notices for previous volumes under Journal History.