Cervical Lymphadenitis and the Neck Lump — Board-Style Questions

What this deck covers

Cervical Lymphadenitis and the Neck Lump in 18 board-style clinical cases with worked explanations. Each case gives you a clinical vignette, four options, the correct answer, and an explanation of why each of the other three is wrong, with the guideline or textbook it follows named on the answer.

Board-style teaching questions for paediatricians and trainees preparing for paediatric board, MRCPCH and licensing examinations. Written from published guidelines and standard paediatric textbooks, with the source named on every answer.

The 18 cases, in order

1. Lumps that come and go
2. Why this one is different
3. Home or hospital
4. Back after two days
5. Which thing is swollen
6. A kitten in the house
7. Tablets and an operation
8. Two ways it moves
9. Why bone comes out too
10. A small hole in the skin
11. Holding a light against it
12. A tilted head in a baby
13. What comes first
14. Why this one gets sent
15. The one thing not to do
16. Instead of a third course
17. Beyond the lump itself
18. What the sheet should say

Diagnoses and management options tested

Across the 18 cases you are asked to choose between options such as: The site in the neck, A muscle of the neck, Cat scratch disease, An enlarged lymph node, A haemangioma, Correcting the sodium, The absence of fever, Simply incising it.

Clinical pearls from this deck

• Say out loud what would change your mind. That is the consultation.
• Unilateral, fast, hot, tender, febrile. Five words and the diagnosis is made.
• Book the review before you write the prescription.
• Forty-eight hours is the appointment with your own diagnosis. Keep it.
• One finger on the angle of the jaw separates gland from node instantly.
• Ask about pets and look for the scratch. Both are easy to forget.

Work through the deck once for recognition, then again a week later to test yourself — each question gives the answer and explains why every other option fails.

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