CT report template
CT Neck report template
Copy a blank CT neck report into your reporting system and replace the prompts with your findings. The format keeps the airway, deep neck spaces and nodal levels visible during review.
Technique: Contrast-enhanced CT of the neck.
Typical indications: Neck mass, suspected infection or abscess, or staging of a known malignancy.
Scope: A general scaffold for contrast-enhanced CT neck in mass, infection or initial staging work. It is not a dedicated CT angiogram, cervical spine or post-treatment NI-RADS surveillance template. Adapt it to the indication and local protocol.
Report sections
The CT Neck report structure, section by section.
- Airway and aerodigestive tract
- Deep neck spaces and soft tissues
- Salivary glands and thyroid
- Cervical lymph node levels
- Carotid and jugular structures
- Bones, teeth and paranasal sinuses
- Orbits and imaged brain
- Lung apices and superior mediastinum
Sample impression
Illustrative and synthetic — not a real case.
- Enlarged left level II lymph node with central necrosis.
- No airway compromise.
- Recommend correlation with the primary site.
Plain-text scaffold
Copyable CT neck report format
Copy this scaffold into your reporting system. Replace each bracketed prompt and remove any line you did not assess.
Independent blank scaffold, not a society-issued template. For reporting guidance, see the systematic emergency neck CT review.
EXAM: CT NECK WITH IV CONTRAST
CLINICAL DETAILS: [Indication and relevant history]
COMPARISON: [Prior study and date]
TECHNIQUE: [Coverage, IV contrast, phases and reformats]
FINDINGS:
Airway and aerodigestive tract:
[Nasopharynx, oropharynx, oral cavity, hypopharynx and larynx]
Deep neck spaces and soft tissues:
[Parapharyngeal, retropharyngeal, carotid, masticator and visceral spaces]
Salivary glands:
[Parotid and submandibular glands]
Thyroid:
[Thyroid gland]
Lymph nodes:
[Side, level, short-axis size, morphology and necrosis where relevant]
Vessels:
[Carotid and jugular structures within scan limits]
Bones, teeth and air spaces:
[Skull base, mandible, dentition, paranasal sinuses and cervical spine]
Other structures:
[Orbits, imaged brain, lung apices and superior mediastinum]
IMPRESSION:
1. [Primary finding and location]
2. [Airway, collection or nodal extent where relevant]
3. [Important limitation or follow-up recommendation if required]From dictation to finished report
Dictate your findings naturally. RadSpeed maps them onto the CT Neck structure above, keeps your reporting style, numbers the impression and returns clean text to your existing workflow. You do not fill in a form — you speak, and the structure is applied for you.
- Dictate the findings in any order.
- RadSpeed structures them into the sections above and drafts the impression.
- Review and sign off — the final wording stays yours.
This template is a reference scaffold with synthetic sample text. It is not clinical guidance, and the sample impression is illustrative only. RadSpeed is assistive software, not a diagnostic device. Never enter patient-identifiable information into public tools.