differential diagnosis of paediatric cervical lesions
The differential diagnosis of pediatric cervical lesions is commonly encountered in practice, unfortunately, the list is long.
Differential diagnosis
Inflammatory
Most lesions tend to be inflammatory :
- non-tuberculous mycobacterial lymphadenitis
- scrofula
- sialodochitis
- abscess
- infected branchial cleft cyst
- infected thyroglossal duct cyst
- inflammation of salivary glands (e.g. parotid/submandibular)
Other non-inflammatory
- fibromatosis colli
- cystic hygroma/lymphangioma
- thyroglossal duct cyst (TGDC)
- Branchial cleft anomalies: most commonly 2 branchial cleft cyst
- cervical dermal sinus
- cervical vascular malformation
- arteriovenous
- venous
- capillary
- lymphatic
- ectopic thyroid tissue
- cervical thymus
Neoplastic
- cervical neuroblastoma
- cervical rhabdomyosarcoma
- cervical teratoma
- cervical lymphoma/leukemia
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