WHAT IS NECK PATHOLOGY?

NECK PATHOLOGY
Contrast-enhanced computed tomography in the axial (a) and coronal (b) plane. Sacciform configuration of the right lymphatic duct in both planes (arrows). The thoracic duct shows a dendritic morphology (arrowheads). Morphology of the distal thoracic duct and the right lymphatic duct in different head and neck pathologies: an imaging-based study: Kammerer FJ, Schlude B, Kuefner MA, Schlechtweg P, Hammon M, Uder M, Schwab SA - Head & face medicine (2016). Not altered. CC.

Neck pathology is the study of diseases and disorders that effect the neck.

Examples of pathologic conditions involving the neck include: 

  • Brachial cysts
  • Thyroglossal duct cysts
  • Paragangiomas