Aetiology of persistent peripheral lymphadenopathy in Nigerian children.
In one year, excisional lymph node biopsy was done in 54 children who presented with persistent peripheral lymph node enlargement. Tuberculosis occured in 26 cases (48%), malignancy in 18 cases (33%); in 10 cases (18.5%) no specific diagnosis was made. Clinical features were not predictive of the histological diagnosis. When the initial biopsy had been non-diagnostic, specific disease did not develop.
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007945:Leukemia, Lymphoid / Q000453:epidemiology*; D007951:Leukemia, Myeloid / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male; D009549:Nigeria; D014388:Tuberculosis, Lymph Node / Q000453:epidemiology*