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The profile of lymphadenopathy in adults and children

H K Darnal1, N Karim, K Kamini

  • 1Department of Pathology, Royal College of Medicine Perak, No. 3, Jalan Greentown, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.

The Medical Journal of Malaysia
|March 7, 2006
PubMed

Surgical biopsies of lymphnodes of 315 patients (273 adult and 42 children) were reviewed microscopically and analysed. The sex ratio was similar in adults but in children males were twice than female (2:1). Ethnically Malay patients predominated in both the groups. The commonest cause of biopsied lymphadenopathy in adults were malignancy (47%) followed by chronic nonspecific lymphadenitis (20%) and granulomatous lymphadenitis (9%) while in children chronic nonspecific lymphadenitis was the commonest (46%) followed by granulomatous lymphadentitis (21%) and malignancy (14%). Twenty percent of adults and 4% of children had normal lymphnodes. Secondary deposits in adult males and females were of squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma type respectively. In our study 100% of clildren and 96% of adults with granulomatous lymphadenitis had tubercular lesions.

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