There are various causes which develop neck masses. As ordinary diagnostic procedures such as history taking, physical examination ana routine laboratory tests, sometimes fail to give their exact nature, it is inevitable to rely on biopsy for final di...
There are various causes which develop neck masses. As ordinary diagnostic procedures such as history taking, physical examination ana routine laboratory tests, sometimes fail to give their exact nature, it is inevitable to rely on biopsy for final diagnosis.
An analysis of neck mass biopsies which was performed during 1966 to 1974 at the surgical departments of Choomg Nam Medical Center and Choong Nam University Hospital, was made
The results were as follows.
1) The frequencies of various causes are as follows.
Inflammation:54cases(47.5%), Malignacies: 39 cases (34.2%), Benign neoplasms: 7 cases (6.1%), and others: 3 cases (2.6%).
The most frequent causative disease entity was tuberculous lymphadenitis and the next was metastatic cancer.
Malignancies were classified as 33.3% primary, 56.4% metastatic and 10.3% uncertain of metastatic cancers, primary site was unknown in 59. 1%
2) The main lesion in over 40 was malignancies and in below 40 was inflammation. Total age incidence of neck masses was highest in teen agers
3) While overall sex ratio was almost identical, tuberculous lymphadenitis was more frequent in female with the ratio of 1.75 to 1 and malignanies were more frequent in male with the ratio of 2.25 . 1.