Congenital neck masses are known as a second most common cause of neck mass in children. Diagnosis could be done by physical examination and various imaging techniques, but final diagnosis could be obtained by the histopathologic findings.
We evaluated the 43 cases of the congenital neck masses, which were confirmed histopathologically in Department of Otolaryngology, Chungnam National University Hospital.
@ES The results were follows ;
@NE 1. Among the 43 cases, branchial cleft anomaly was most common(44.1%), and thyroglossal duct cyst(34.8%), cystic hygroma (11.6%), epidermoid cyst(4.7%), hemangioma (4.7%) were in order.
2. There was slight difference in sex distribution(male 67.4%, female 32.6%).
3. Congenital neck masses were moslty detected under 20 years of age (60.6%).
4. Congenital neck masses were located at midline(39.5%), anterior cervical triangle(53.4%) and posterior cervial triangle(7.0%).
5. Frequency of postoperative complication and recurrence was relatively low (complication 9.3%, recurrence 4.6%).
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