Volume : VII, Issue : VI, June - 2018

CLINICAL CORRELATION BETWEEN ULTRASONOGRAPHIC FINDINGS & NECK SWELLING

Dr. Pragya Ghosh

Abstract :

Present study is based upon 26 thyroid swellings and 24 cases of nonthyroid swellings (cervical lymphadenopathy with or without abscess transformations, parotid abscess, thyroglossal cyst, epidermal inclusion cyst and submental lipoma). Female dominance was observed. Main clinical presentation was swelling of various sizes at different sites. Pain was in few cases only.Ultrasonography revealed various nodules of hypoechoic texture in both varieties of thyroid pathology.Calcification was seen in three of the cases. Peripheral & intralesional vascularity was seen on color doppler study in papillary thyroid swelling. Nonthyroid group presented with a variety of features as described in detail in text. Literature supported our observations in majority of cases. FNAC and/or postoperative histopathology confirmed the diagnosis in all the cases.

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Dr. Pragya Ghosh, CLINICAL CORRELATION BETWEEN ULTRASONOGRAPHIC FINDINGS & NECK SWELLING, PARIPEX‾INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-6 | June-2018

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