[agate]

Hi, I need help on this.

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My 5 and half month old daughter started crying when my wife was bathing her. On closer examination, my wife felt a small lump on the baby's neck, below the left ear. On pressing the lump, the child would cry. We took her to the hospital, where an Ultra Sound was done. The radiologist as well as the pediatrician asked specifically whether there was fever, and whether it was the first time we had noticed it. It was the first time we had nnoticed, and she had no fever that day nor the days preceding it. They further did a CT Scan. The CT Scan report goes like this:- "(I) A large heterogenously enhancing mass comprising of multiple rim enhancing necrotic areas seen in the posterior triangle of the neck on the left side, within the trapezius muscle. Multiple enhancing level III and IV nodes are seen on the left side. There are enlarged nodes in both submandibular regions and in the right occipital triangle. First possibility would be conglomerate abscesses? Tuberculous. Possibility of a neoplasm seems less likely-cannot be ruled out completely. For FNAC sorrelation. (2) The chest study is within normal limits " After this, we did the FNAC , where in they inserted a syringe to extract a sample of the lump. The FNAC report went like this
" M.tuberculosis complex : Not detected. Non tuberculosis Mycobacteria : Not Detected
As there were no other clinical indications of Tuberculosis, such fever or contact with any other person having tuberculosis, and since the lab reports of FNAC also says so, the pediatrician has ruled out Tuberculosis.


SO now we are going to a bigger hospital for further dignosis. The sentence in the CT Scan report saying that -the possibility of a neoplasm(which is the medical term for tumour) cannot be ruled out completely- is worrying us a lot.
If anyone reading this has a similar experience or knows a doctor who can comment on this, please respond at the earliest. Thank you.

[Mirandadianne]

I went through something similar when I was about five--it took a couple of years and a number of specialists before they finally figured out what I had--google angiomatoid fiberous histiocytoma and ask her doctor if they can rule it out. Most cases are malignant, but they can be benign, too. Best of luck to you and yours.