AboutNeha Dahiya MD Expertise I can help patients understand their lab report results, help them with queries regarding what pretest preparation is required. How often a follow up test needs to be done. What does a particular tissue biopsy report mean in everyday English. I can explain the biopsy or cytology procedure. I can deal with Histopathology / cytology / clinical pathology and clinical chemistry queries. Helping in this manner will be my contribution to the community.
Experience I am a pathologist and director of clinical laboratory services. I have been a practicing pathologist for last 9 years in a 350 bed multi specialty hospital laboratory.
Organizations Indian association of pathologists and microbiologists.
MIAC - Member International Academy of Cytology
International association of Pathologists - indian division
Indian association of Cytology
Question My son had a CT scan due to having frequent headaches and they found a 1.7 cm lesion in the right turbinate. We were then referred to a otolaryngologist. He did a removal via endoscopy and found that it was so large he had to remove it through the mouth. He told us that the pathologist could not tell what it was and that it had to be sent off for further testing. That is all he would tell us. I asked him if it could be bad and he said that he did not want to tell us anything until the pathology report came back. My sons diagnosis was nasopharyngeal mass. What could this mean? I have looked up possible diagnosis for this mass such as nasal pharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma, non-hodgkins lymphoma, juvenile nasal angiofibroma, fibrosarcoma and esthesioneuroblastoma. Are these possible and why did the pathologist not know what the mass was?
Answer Hello Lela:
I can understand your anxiety about not knowing whats wrong with your son.
Nasopharyngeal mass means just that. A growth in the nasopharynx.
It is pure speculation to figure out what this may be by looking up the Internet. You will have to wait for the pathologist report. What this means "pathologist could not tell" is that with normal routine processes it is difficult to assign a final diagnosis. Further type of stains or immune markers may be needed to find the diagnosis.
