A study of clinical profile of patients with neck swelling at tertiary health care center
Journal Title: MedPulse -International Medical Journal - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 6
Abstract
Background: Swellings in the neck may be due to various causes. These swellings can be divided into midline swellings and lateral neck swellings (LNS). Aims and Objectives: To study clinical profile of patients with neck swelling at tertiary health care center. Methodology: It was a cross-sectional study of 210 cases of palpable neck lesions from March 2015 to October 2016 at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj general hospital and Dr. V. M Medical College, Solapur. Any patients with palpable lesion of neck referred is selected and the aspiration is done in central clinical laboratory of pathology department. Result: As per Symptomatology in Lymph nodes there was Lymphadenopathy in 18.57%, Weight lost in 18.10% and in Thyroid gland Swelling was present in 10.95%, Decreased weight in 6.47%, in Salivary gland -Swelling was in 1.90% followed by Pain in 1.43%. The maximum number of cases with neck swelling were with lymphnode involvement i.e, consisting of 131 cases (62.38%) while the cases with the thyroid gland swelling were 67(31.90%) the cases with salivary gland swellings i.e. group (3) were 10 (4.77%) and the cases with neck swellings not involving any specific organ were minimum in number in number i.e. 2(0.95%) which were included in miscellaneous group. The maximum number of cases were in the age group of 21 to 30 years i.e. 56 cases (26.66%) while the minimum number of cases were in the age group of 61 to 70 years i.e. 2 cases forming 0.95%. there was male preponderance with male: female ratio of 1.62:1 the maximum number of cases were in age group of 11 to 20 years i.e. 43 cases followed by 34 cases in age group of 21 to 30 years. In the of thyroid swelling there was female preponderance with male: female ratio of 1: 5.7. The maximum cases were in third decade. In male lesion are common in third and fourth decades. Conclusion: From our study it can be concluded that As per Symptomatology in Lymph nodes there was Lymphadenopathy and weight lost, for Thyroid gland Swelling and decreased weight, for salivary gland swelling and pain etc. The maximum number of cases were in the age group of 21 to 30 years in the thyroid swelling there was female preponderance.
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Satish Pawar, Satish Gopal Sankpal
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