This page was last reviewed 22-02-21
There are two neck lump clinics (Monday afternoon and Friday Mornings) a week at Lauriston Building, and once a month at SJH .
This has been set up to provide rapid assessment of all neck lumps. The clinic includes immediate access to ultrasound and both fine needle and core biopsies.
Neck lumps >1 cm in size, persisting >3 weeks should be referred.
Please refer these patients to the ENT department as normal and we will triage them into the neck lump clinic.
Please do not prearrange ultrasound scans as we will provide the appropriate scanning in the clinic. Interpretation of ultrasound in the neck is a challenging area and the radiologists involved with our clinic have built up a significant expertise in this area.
In West Lothian we will still see and assess neck lumps in the ENT clinics, but we hope to have a similar arrangement in place later in the year.
Patients from East Lothian are already being redirected to the Lauriston Buildings.
