Persistent palpable cervical lymph nodes in Nigerian children.
A study of 105 consecutive Nigerian children with palpable cervical lymph nodes was carried out over a 4-year period from January 1983 to January 1987 at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria. In 43 (41%) of these children, the initial diagnosis was non-specific lymphadenitis, in 27 (25.7%) tuberculosis, in 18 (17.1%) lymphoma, in 9 (8.6%) metastasis to cervical lymph nodes, and in 8 (7.6%) sinus histiocytosis. The correlation between clinical assessment and histological findings was good in conditions like tuberculosis, metastasis and lymphoma, fair in chronic non-specific lymphadenitis, and poor in sinus histiocytosis. It is, therefore, mandatory that the histological study of chronically enlarged cervical lymph nodes be made in children before definitive treatment is started.
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Burns and Plastic Unit, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria.
Ijaduola
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D000293:Adolescent; D002051:Burkitt Lymphoma / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006646:Histiocytosis, Langerhans-Cell / Q000473:pathology; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology*; D008199:Lymphadenitis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology*; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D009333:Neck; D010173:Palpation; D014388:Tuberculosis, Lymph Node / Q000473:pathology