Analysis of Children with Peripheral Lymphadenopathy
- 1 July 2006
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Clinical Pediatrics
- Vol. 45 (6), 544-549
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0009922806290609
Abstract
In this study, the clinical and laboratory features of children with lymphadenopathy were evaluated. Over a 3-year period, 126 patients were referred to the clinic for lymphadenopathy. Twenty-eight of cases have diseases mimicking lymphadenopathy; 98 (mean age: 86 ± 55 months) have lymphadenopathy. Localized, limited, and generalized involvement was found in 52%, 30%, and 18% of patients. The most common localization was the head and neck region. The causes of lymphadenopathy were benign diseases in 75 patients. Sixty percent were reactive lymphadenopathy, 39% were lymphadenitis. Lymphadenitis was more frequently localized and bigger than 3 cm compared with reactive adenopathy (p = .02, p = .004). Twenty-three patients have malignant diseases whose mean age was higher than others (p = .002). The enlargement of supraclavicular nodes was more likely due to malignant disease (p = .001). The risk of malignant disease was higher in patients who had generalized lymphadenopathy, lymph nodes bigger than 3 cm, hepatosplenomegaly, and high lactate dehydrogenase levels. In conclusion, this study pointed out the important clues for the differential diagnosis, which were present in the history, physical, and laboratory findings.Keywords
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