Open AccessDiagnostic dilemma in bilateral multiple cervical lymphadenopathy
Author(s) -
Arjun Sengupta,
Soumyajit Das,
Subhasish Chakrabarty
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.229
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 2231-3796
pISSN - 0973-7707
DOI - 10.1007/bf02907632
Subject(s) - medicine , otorhinolaryngology , cervical lymphadenopathy , lymph node , cervical lymph nodes , head and neck surgery , radiology , fine needle aspiration cytology , general surgery , surgery , biopsy , pathology , cancer , metastasis , disease
Patient presenting with cervical lymph node enlargement is common in Otorhinolaryngology out-patient department of different hospitals of India. In many cases it becomes difficult to know the cause of lymphadenopathy without doing a battery of investigations. Often on fine needle aspiration cytology, lymph node in the neck is found to be metastatic, but site of prinary tumour becomes difficult to find out. Here a case in presented with multiple bilateral cervical lymphadenopathy with a diagnostic dilemma where the diagnosis changed repetitively from one doctor to another and from one laboratory to another.