TO ASSESS THE ROLE OF CONTRAST ENHANCED CT NECK IN THE EVALUATION OF NECK MASSES (SPECTRUM OF DIFFERENT NECK MASSES) AT P.B.M. HOSPITAL BIKANER.

Preetam, Deepika Meena, Deepak Meena, Manish Kumar Meena and G. L. Meena*

ABSTRACT

Background: Neck swelling or neck mass is a very common presentation encountered in clinical practice. Materials and Methods: A prospective study of 50 cases in a clinically suspected neck masses was studied for a 1 year period. Contrast enhanced CT of neck was done using Philips MX 16 CT Scanner with 3-5 mm axial sections. Result: In the present study, lymph nodal masses accounted for 15 cases and rest of 35 cases had non-nodal neck masses. 56%neck mass were malignant and 44% were benign nature. Conclusion: The accuracy of MDCT for predicting the benign or malignant nature of the mass, and its extent was found to be very high.

Keywords: Computed tomography, Infection, Neck mass.