Abstract

Neck swellings are frequently encountered in clinical practice in a country like India. They can prove to be an important reason of significant morbidity and mortality. The etiology of neck masses ranges from benign or congenital lesions to acquired or neoplastic lesions which may also present in late childhood. A Retrospective study was undertaken in the Department of pathology, Government medical college, Anantapuramu, Andhrapradesh, India between the period of November 2021 to October 2023.All the paediatric patients whose age is less than or equal to 16 years and presented with neck swellings were included in the study to know the spectrum of various cytomorphological patterns of head and neck lesions in paediatric age group. A total of 204 FNACs of head and neck lesions were studied in cases falling in the age group <16 years. Maximum numbers of aspirates were found in 06–11 year old (44.12%).There is a little male predominance with male to female ratio of 1.83:1. Lymphnode was the most common site involved seen in 150 (73.53%) cases and the most common cytological diagnosis was reactive lymphadenitis accounting for 60% of lymphnode lesions followed by granulomatous lymphadenitis. In the thyroid lesion hashimotos thyroiditis was the commonest diagnosis seen in 16 cases. As Previous reports have suggested utility of FNAC in only a small series of paediatric populations the present study was designed to find out the incidence of various lesions in head and neck region and to study the role of fine needle aspiration cytology, cytomorhological spectra of different lesions in the head and neck region and its utility in paediatric lesions

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