This Article  • Full text  • PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Related article  • Similar articles in this journal  Topic Collections  • Radiology of Head & Neck  • Diagnosis  • Alert me on articles by topic  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Michael H. Tang, MD; Paul A. Caruso, MD; Michael J. Cunningham, MD
Harvard Medical School (Dr Tang) and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (Drs Caruso and Cunningham), Boston

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2007;133(9):941-942.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

A 4-year-old girl presented with an asymptomatic midline neck mass of several weeks' duration. She had been in recent good health, with no inflammatory or worrisome constitutional symptoms. She had no respiratory distress, dysphagia, odynophagia, or dysphonia. There had been no precedent neck trauma. Her medical history was noncontributory. Physical examination revealed a nontender midline anterior neck mass, measuring approximately 2 cm in diameter, overlying the thyroid cartilage. The mass appeared fixed deeply but not to the skin. There was no induration. No additional cervical masses or lymphadenopathy was palpable. The mass did not clearly move with tongue protrusion. The thyroid gland was not palpable.

Cervical ultrasonography documented a 1.0 x 1.5 x 1.8-cm, echogenically heterogeneous mass anterior and slightly to the right of the thyroid cartilage. Doppler ultrasonography revealed the mass to be hypervascular. The official ultrasound . . . [Full Text of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?

RELATED ARTICLE

Radiology Quiz Case 2: Diagnosis
Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2007;133(9):943-944.
EXTRACT | FULL TEXT