Fig. 1. Cervical computed tomography (CT) images. (A) Cervical CT reveals right cervical lymphadenopathy. (B) Cervical enhanced CT reveals considerable improvement in right cervical lymphadenopathy after 3 cycles of chemotherapy with tetrahydropyranyl doxorubicin (50 mg on day 1), cyclophosphamide (750 mg on day 1), vincristine (1.6 mg on day 1), and prednisolone (50 mg on days 1–5). (C) Cervic...

Objective: To determine the proportion of Hodgkins lymphoma in cervical lymphadenopathy. Methodology: This is a prospective study conducted at Isra University Hospital, Hyderabad between January 2002 to December 2006. The data was collected for all patients presenting with cervical lymphadenopathy during the above mentioned period. All the patients with cervical lymphadenopathy were subjected t...

Kikuchi's disease is a benign condition that occurs in women. A young woman presented to the hospital with fevers and cervical lymphadenopathy. Infectious work-up was negative except for streptococcus pharyngitis. Imaging studies revealed the presence of diffuse cervical and axillary lymphadenopathy. The fevers persisted and she underwent excisional cervical lymph node biopsy that revealed hist...

Cervical lymphadenopathy is a common problem in children. The condition most commonly represents a transient response to a benign local or generalized infection, but occasionally it might herald the presence of a more serious disorder. Acute bilateral cervical lymphadenopathy usually is caused by a viral upper respiratory tract infection or streptococcal pharyngitis. Acute unilateral cervical l...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis is highly prevalent in Pakistan and the numbers are on increase each year. Cervical lymphadenopathy, a common finding in tuberculosis and other inflammatory, infectious and malignant etiologies, is commonly encountered in hospital setting in Karachi, Pakistan. Signs and symptoms of tuberculosis are blood tinged sputum, weight loss, night sweats, loss of appetite and weak...

Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy also called as Rosai-Dorfman’s disease is a benign self limiting rare histiocytic disorder with very few case reports in Pakistani literature. This case report describes a young boy of nine years age who presented with progressive, asymptomatic bilateral cervical lymphadenopathy for eight months. Open cervical lymph node biopsy confirmed the diag...

INTRODUCTION The clinical presentation of carcinoma of the cervix as cervical lymphadenopathy has not been described before. We report a case of this unusual manifestation of cervical cancer. CASE PRESENTATION A 51-year-old woman presented to our Head and Neck department with cervical lymphadenopathy. A positron emission tomography scan revealed the primary tumour to be in the cervix and a ce...

introduction: kikuchi-fujimoto disease or histocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis is a rare, benign, self-limited condition characterized by constitutional symptoms, lymphadenopathy, and skin lesions and often affects young adult females.the etiology is unknown although viruses and autoimmune mechanisms has been suggested. diagnosis is fundamentally based on the affected lymph node biopsy.the pati...