Lateral Neck Swellings: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges

Description:

The book provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges and debates on the diagnosis and treatment of lateral neck swellings to clarify some uncertainties, make suggestions for resolving others, and establish strategies for achieving therapeutic success. In addition to information on the surgical anatomy of the neck, and the classification and clinical approach for diagnosis and management of neck swellings, the chapters explore solid swellings and cystic swellings of the anterior and posterior triangles. The last chapter emphasizes the importance of scheduling regular follow-ups as well as patient counselling and education.

The volume, enriched with colour images and flowcharts, will be an indispensable resource for head and neck surgeons, maxillofacial surgeons, endocrinologists, oncologists, pediatricians, and clinicians in other specialties as they face the most challenging lateral neck swellings and work towards providing each patient with the best possible outcome.

Preface

In this authored book, we aim at emphasizing established concepts, displaying the ongoing arguments, controversies, challenges, and debates on diagnosis and treatment of lateral neck swellings with a view of clarifying some uncertainties, making suggestions to resolve others, and establishing strategies to reach therapeutic success.

This book, in 22 chapters with 123 images and 1958 references, will provide a valuable source of knowledge and reference for all specialists and trainees entrusted with the care of patients suffering from lateral neck swellings. It addresses and discusses the following topics:

Surgical anatomy of the neck (anterior and posterior cervical triangles), classification and clinical approach for diagnosis and management of neck swellings, solid swellings of the anterior triangle (cervical lymphadenopathy, solitary thyroid nodule, parotid tail swelling, submandibular gland swellings, carotid body tumor, schwannoma, and sternocleidomastoid tumor), cystic swellings of the anterior triangle (cervical abscess, branchial cyst, extra-cranial carotid artery aneurysm, laryngocele, and plunging ranula), solid swellings of the posterior triangle (cervical rib, lipoma/liposarcoma, fibroma/fibromatosis, and Virchow’s lymph node), and cystic swellings of the posterior triangle (cystic hygroma, pharyngeal pouch [Zenker’s diverticulum], and pneumatocele). In addition, this book emphasizes, in the last chapter, the importance of scheduling regular follow-up as well as patient counseling and education to obtain maximum patient safety and optimum management outcome.

It is my collective hope that head and neck surgeons, maxillofacial surgeons, orthopedic surgeons, endocrinologists, oncologists, pediatricians, and clinicians of other specialties will find this book to be a useful and indispensable resource as they face the most challenging of lateral neck swellings to help provide individual patients with the best possible outcome.