CT showed egg shell calcification in the cervical lymph nodes in a patient with sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy treated for 1 year with interferon. CT scans before interferon treatment had shown no nodal calcification.

A 94-year-old female patient presented with anorexia and left axillar lymphadenopathy on admission. Her past history was angina pectoris at 83 years of age and total gastrectomy due to gastric cancer at 87 years. The family history revealed that her son had had a malignant lymphoma, the histopathological diagnosis of which was diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. A physical examination showed both ce...

Background: Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is becoming preoperative method of choice for diagnosis and management various lumps lesions since few decades. It helps clinician to decide mode treatment in most cases both non-neoplastic neoplastic disorders. As cervical, axillary inguinal lymphadenopathies are commonly encountered clinical problems, this study, we evaluated the utility FNAC...

Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy (SHML) or Rosai-Dorfman disease (RDD) was first described as a distinct clinicopathological entity by Rosai and Dorfman in 1969. SHML is commonly characterized by painless cervical lymphadenopathy, and its clinical course is generally benign and self-limiting. This disorder commonly involves the lymph nodes but may secondarily involve the skin. H...

Lymphadenopathy is known to be associated with lepromatous leprosy and has also been observed as a feature of type-2 lepra reaction. However, nodular lymph node enlargement is not commonly reported in leprosy patients or as a feature of relapse. We herewith are presenting a case of bacteriological relapse in a patient of lepromatous leprosy treated 22 years before till smear negativity with WHO...

Cervical lymph node metastases are very common in patients with papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). Despite that PTC has an excellent prognosis, lymphatic spread is associated with increased risk of loco-regional recurrence, which significantly impairs quality-of-life and can alter prognosis of the patient. Therefore, the identification of lymph node metastases preoperatively is very important for ...

Kikuchi Fujimoto disease (KFD), or Kikuchi histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenopathy is an extremely rare disease known to have a worldwide distribution with a higher prevalence among Japanese and Asians.1 There is much speculation about the cause of KFD; a viral or autoimmune cause has been suggested.1 KFD is a benign, self-limited disease that resolves in 1 to 4 months.4 An early biopsy can be ...

BACKGROUND Facial node involvement in head and neck cancer is rarely documented. Furthermore, facial node removal may increase the risk of damage to the marginal mandibular nerve. Thus, although they may receive afferent lymphatic drainage from the oral cavity, facial nodes are rarely removed during neck dissection. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the records of 29 patients with oral cavi...

BACKGROUND Kikuchi-Fujimoto's disease (KFD), also called histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis, is a rare, idiopathic and self-limited condition usually characterized by cervical lymphadenopathy and fever, most often affecting young patients. Aetiology is unknown. Differential diagnosis includes mainly malignant lymphoma, tuberculous lymphadenitis and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), so earl...