Top Five Causes of Neck Mass in Chattogram

Abstract

Background: Identifying top problems in any discipline is very important for diagnosis and effective management. Unfortunately there is a knowledge gap in Chattogram, Bangladesh. To fill up the gap we have conducted the study.
 Materials and methods : It was a retrospective study based on hospital records of Chattogram General Hospital from January 2017 to December 2017. All (104) cases with neck mass were included. Age, sex, clinical diagnosis, histo-pathological diagnosis and management were noted. Data were managed manually.
 Results: Total 104 cases were studied among the cases 65% were female and 35% were male. 91% cases were of 10-50 years age group. Highest cases 33% were found in 20-30 years age group. According to Histo-pathological report 25% cases were Tubercular lymphadenopathy, Nonspecific lymphadenopathy were 17% and Multi-nodular goiter were 15%. Results were contrasted with previous studies.
 Conclusion: Top 05 causes of neck mass in Chattogram have been unveiled. Tuberculosis is still number one problem. So, TB control program should be evaluated further to find out causes of high TB cases in this region.
 Chatt Maa Shi Hosp Med Coll J; Vol.19 (2); July 2020; Page 18-20

Retrospective Analysis of Neck Masses Diagnosed by Histopathology from Chattogram General Hospital

“…7 Previously, Chowdhury et al observed that histopathologically TB Lymphadenopathy was the top-ranking neck mass found in all age groups. 12 Inflammatory lesions are the most common neck masses in many studies from Bangladesh and neighbouring countries, supported by our research. 5,7,12 Inflammatory lesions occur among neck masses in developing countries, while congenital and neoplastic masses are most common in developed countries.…”

“…12 Inflammatory lesions are the most common neck masses in many studies from Bangladesh and neighbouring countries, supported by our research. 5,7,12 Inflammatory lesions occur among neck masses in developing countries, while congenital and neoplastic masses are most common in developed countries. 3 Neoplastic masses are the most frequent neck mass in patients aged 40 or over, while inflammatory masses are the most common in children due to upper respiratory tract infections.…”

“…There is lack of data on the characteristics of such patients in terms of clinic-epidemiological and histopathological information, which might vary from country to country. 12 Our local data needs to examine if such data are comparable to the other regional and international data. Moreover, this study finding might be helpful for the clinician of this region in early diagnosis and clinical decision making.…”

Integrated transcriptome catalog of Tenualosa ilisha as a resource for gene discovery and expression profiling

“…Raw RNA-Sequence reads of different tissues of Tenualosa ilisha have been deposited in the NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) database under the NCBI Bioproject ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/ ) with accession PRJNA850620 22 . Final set of transcripts have been submitted to NCBI Transcriptome Shotgun Assembly (TSA) database ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/tsa/ ) under the accession no GKAU00000000 23 . Raw assembly data, annotation file and Transdecoder predicted peptide files have been deposited in Figshare 24 .…”