HODGKINS LYMPHOMA IN PATIENTS OF CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY

Objective: The aim of this research work is to determine the amount of HL (Hodgkin’s lymphoma) in cervical abnormal enlargement of the lymph nodes.  

Methodology: This research work carried out in Mayo hospital Lahore. The duration of the study was from January 2012 to December 2017. The information gathered from the patients suffering of cervical abnormal enlargement of the lymph nodes during the above described study period of five years. All those patients suffering of CL (cervical lymphadenopathy) underwent to complete previous history, interrogations and assessment with the help of histopathology.

Results: There were four hundred and ninety-eight patients suffering of CL in which forty patients found with HL (Hodgkin’s lymphoma). Males were making the eighty percent of the total patients. Mixed cellularity was present in more than fifty percent patients whereas nodular sclerosis was present in more than thirty-seven percent patients. Most of the patients were in the 2^nd and 3^rd stage of the disease. The total survival rate in those five years of study period was about seventy-five percent.

Conclusion: The amount of the HL in the abnormal enlargement of the lymph nodes in the cervix is very less in our communities as compared to the countries of the West.  

Key Words: Lymphocytic Diminution, Cervical Lymphadenopathy, Malignant, lymphadenopathy, Biopsy, Nodes, Histopathology.