WlwG Neck Flashcards
Location of: Branchial cyst 1 type 1
Adjacent to EAC
Location of: Branchial cyst 1 type 2
Parotid
Location of: Branchial cyst 2
Mandible angle to carotid bifurcation
Location of: Branchial cyst 3
Infrahyoid neck along SCM
Location of: Branchial cyst 4
Adjacent to thyroid
Branchial cleft: Difference between cyst, sinus and fistula
Cyst = no communication. Sinus = incomplete track. Fistula = communication
Location of: Thyroglossal duct cyst
Midline thin-walled cyst, infrahyoid
Location of: Cystic hygroma
Posterior cervical triangle, T2-hyper non-enhancing
T2-extremely hyper with enhancement, US-hyper in infant/child
Infant haemangioma, associated with PHACES syndrome (posterior fossa, haemangioma, arterial anomaly, coarctation of aorta, eye anomaly, subglottic haemangioma).
Type of cancer in larynx
SCC
Cause of vocal cord nodules/polyps
Vocal cord abuse, benign
Dilated laryngeal saccule with air or fluid
Laryngocoele
CN involved in vocal cord paralysis
CN 10
Signs of croup
Infant with barking cough and inspiratory stridor from parainfluenza/respiratory syncytial virus
Signs of epiglottitis
CHILD/young adult with Haemophilus influenzae B infection, results in acute airway obstruction/difficulty speaking, inspiratory stridor, dysphagia, fever.
Carotid space: Hypervascular with salt and pepper appearance, T1-hypo, T2-hyper
Para-ganglioma (glomus tumour)
Hypervascular mass at carotid bifurcation
Carotid body tumour
Hypervascular mass between carotid bifurcation and jugular foramen
Glomus vagale
Hypervascular mass between skull base to jugular foramen
Glomus jugulare
Hypervascular mass at middle ear region
Glomus tympanicum
Carotid space: Heterogeneous avid enhancement, T2-hyper mixed solid-cystic mass
Schwannoma, CN10 (NF homogeneous enhancement, Schwannoma heterogeneous enhancement)
Carotid space: Homogeneous enhancement, T2-hyper target sign bright rim with dark center, widening/erosion of neural foramina
NeuroFibroma (NF homogeneous enhancement, Schwannoma heterogeneous enhancement)
Carotid space: Multiple neurofibromas
NF1 (Compare NF2 is acoustic neuromas/schwanomas)