Neck Lumps Flashcards
neck lump more painful with alcohol would suggest what?
Hodgkins.
Who gets a thyroglossal cyst, where is it and presentation?
< 20 years old
Midline.
Lesion that move up and down when you stick the tongue out.
How do you know it is a thyroid mass?
Moves up and down on swallowing,
Soft painless and mobile lesion that his imprecise borders?
Lipoma
Painless or painful lesions that has a central puncture and and you cannot pull the skin over it?
Sebaceous cyst.
Posterior triangle lump that transilluminates in children < 1?
Cystic hygroma
What would be suggestive of malignancy/.
Painless, firm, irregular lymph node in the anterior triangle
What lump appears in the anterior triangfle, below the anterior border of SCM, feels like a half filled water bottle and has cholesterol crystals in it?
Branchial cyst.
Soft immobile midline lesion in someone less that 20?
Dermal cyst.
Painless, mobile flesh coloured lesion that may have cafe au lair spots?
Neurofibromas.
Where does a branchial cyst occur?
Anterior triangle
Where does a dermal cyst occur?
Midline.
