Revista de investigación de procesos orgánicos y farmacéutica molecular

Abstracto

Cross-Sectional Retrospective Study on Clinicocytologic Characterization of Lymphadenopathy In Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital

Bekalu Molla

Lymphadenopathy is an abnormal increase in size and /or altered consistency of lymph nodes. Tuberculosisis the commonest cause of lymphadenopathy in developing countries like Ethiopia            Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is one of the diagnostic methods in pathology and used as a tool to obtain cells for the morphological diagnosis of numerous lesions.This study was undertaken to evaluate the clinicocytologic characteristics of peripheral lymphadenopathiesAll 1500 cases were retrieved from the Ayder comprehensive teaching hospital record retrospectively from the patients who had presented with superficial lymphadenopathy from January 2017 to June 2018.A total of 1500 lymph nodes were aspirated. Male and female accounts 53.1% and 46.9%, respectivelly.Cervical lymphadenopathy was the most frequent(52%).Most of tuberculosis cases have similar cytologic and clinical diagnosis (87%) but from Secondary tumors only 35% have similar clinical diagnosis and only 5% of Hodgkin’s lymphoma cases are correctly diagnosed clinically.