title: Aetiology of persistent peripheral lymphadenopathy in Nigerian children.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: 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*