A CLINICO PATHOLOGICAL STUDY OF NECK SWELLINGS EXCLUDING THYROID IN A TERTIARY HOSPITAL

Abstract

Background : Neck swellings are common in clinical practice and is of various types - congenital, acquired, inflammatory, neoplastic and miscellaneous. The workup of neck mass is different in children and in adults, due to differing etiologies. In this present dissertation, it has been tried to review the literature and to know the disease occurrence and its distribution and to find out the possible etiological factors of the neck swellings with fine needle aspiration cytology and histopathological correlation and also to summarize the results of different forms of treatment for neck swellings especially tuberculosis.