Lymphadenopathies that are at the supraclavicular region, larger than 2 cm diameters, going on longer than 4 weeks and not responding to non-specific antibiotic treatment should be suspected in terms of malignancy.
1-4) of metastatic
lymphadenopathies are well correlated with other reports (Cowell et al., 2003; Thangathurai et al., 2008; Raskin and Meyer, 2010; Thangapandiyan and Balachandran, 2014; Thangapandiyan et al., 2014).
Comparison of Fine needle aspiration cytology and histopathology in diagnosing cervical
lymphadenopathies. Australas Med J 2011;4(2):97-9.
Information regarding squamous cell lung cancer presenting with necrotic mediastinal
lymphadenopathies is sparse, but squamous cell carcinoma of the lung should be considered in patients with mediastinal lymph node aspirate showing liquid necrotic [8].
Lymphadenopathy is defined as an abnormality in size, number, and consistency of one or more than one lymph nodes.1
Lymphadenopathies involving a single or two neighbouring lymph nodes are termed local
lymphadenopathies, when more than two lymph nodes are involved then this condition is called generalized lymphadenopathy which is categorized in two forms.
In our study, we found
lymphadenopathies mostly in the neck region with a rate of 88%.
The features of these lymph nodes were reminiscent of the cases of allergic
lymphadenopathies described by Gall and Rappaport[5] in a monograph published in 1958.
A total number of 378 cases of
lymphadenopathies with clinical diagnosis were aspirated during a period of 4 years.
Our objective was to define all bacterial causes of
lymphadenopathies for samples initially sent to our center for detection of CSD.
Although most reactive and infectious
lymphadenopathies show nonspecific histologic findings, diagnostic morphologic features can be seen in a few reactive conditions, such as infectious mononucleosis, virus-associated hemophagocytic syndrome, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.[1,2] We present clinical and pathologic findings in 2 patients with long-standing reactive lymphadenopathy due to Actinomyces infection.
[6] The role of fine needle aspiration cytology in the evaluation of
lymphadenopathies is well known.
A second case was later reported in a hemodialysis patient with Sjogren syndrome who had mediastinal
lymphadenopathies and secondary pancytopenia (28).