A Sonographically Evaluation of Cervical Lymphadenopathy in Rural Population at Peripheral Centre, Western U.P. India

To evaluate the efficacy of sonography in detecting and differentiation between malignant and benign cervical lymph nodes in rural population at peripheral centre in western utter Pradesh India.

86 patients of cervical lymphadenopathy were attended in OPD of Medicine department and sonographically evaluation was done in the department of radiology Saraswathi Institute of Medical Sciences Hapur, Ghaziabad, U.P, India, from, March 20014 to January 2015 for the present study.

In the cross sectional study 86 cases were taken, out of them 12 cases were malignant and in 74 cases were benign. The high frequency linear probe (8–10 MH) was used to evaluate to cervical lymphadenopathy. The B-mode contour characteristics and presence of a hilum in malignant and benign lymph nodes were statistically significant, but there was no significant differences between the ratio of longitudinal diameter to the transverse diameter, echogenity and the diameters of lymph nodes.

In the differentiations of benign and malignant cervical lymph nodes, the B-mode sonography is a limited method for evaluation of malignant lymph nodes in the neck and can not replace biopsy. It may be recommended that FANC/Biopsy along with sonography are mandatory for diagnosis of benign vs. malignant cervical nodes