Fine needle aspiration cytology of supraclavicular lymph nodes: Our experience over a three-year period

Mitra, Sumit; Ray, Suchandra; Mitra, Pinaki

doi:10.4103/0970-9371.83465

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“…Squamous cell carcinoma (32.2%) followed by adenocarcinoma (22%) were the most common metastatic tumors in our study. Similar figures were also seen in a study (Mitra et al, 2011). Other studies (Khajuria et al, 2006;Izhar et al, 2007;Hirachand et al, 2009;Wilkinson et al, 2012) also found squamous cell carcinoma as the most common metatatic malignancy.…”

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Profile of Lymphadenopathy in Kashmir Valley: a Cytological Study

Qadri

Hamdani²,

Shah³

et al. 2012

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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Lymphadenopathy is one of the commonest and significant manifestations of local as well as systemic ailments, especially malignancies. Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) helps in diagnosing the disease itself, in general, but more importantly ruling out malignancy, in particular. Hence it saves much of the cost and use of resources incurred with excision biopsy of such lymph nodes. This prompted us to study the cytologic patterns of lymphadenopathy in our setting and the diagnostic utility of FNAC in the evaluation of lymphadenopathy. In this retrospective observational study, 1,579 patients (953 males and 626 females) with lymphadenopathy who were subjected to FNAC over a period of three years (January 2009 to December 2011) were studied. The cervical region was involved in most of the cases (76%) followed by the axillary region (17.5%). Metastatic malignancy (38.2%) was the commonest cause of lymphadenopathy followed by reactive lymphoid hyperplasia (36.9%), tuberculosis (9.1%) and lymphomas (8.6%). Squamous cell carcinoma (32.2%) followed by adenocarcinoma (21.9%) were the most frequent metastatic tumors. FNAC is a useful diagnostic tool in the management of patients presenting with lymphadenopathy and should be considered before more invasive and costly procedures are performed, particularly in developing countries.

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Profile of Lymphadenopathy in Kashmir Valley: a Cytological Study

Qadri

Hamdani²,

Shah³

et al. 2012

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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“…Squamous cell carcinoma followed by adenocarcinoma were found to be the most common tumors to metastasize to cervical lymph node in many studies [5,9,16,21] similar to our study. However, adenocarcinoma was found to be the most common metastatic tumor followed by squamous cell carcinoma in some other study [22].…”

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Cytological Study of Cervical Lymphadenopathy in a Trtiary Care Institution from Kashmir Valley, India

Sk¹,

Nh²,

Besina³

et al. 2016

J Cytol Histol

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“…The incidence of malignancy rose steadily through the age groups to greater than 95% in patients above 60 years of age (Mitra et al, 2011). The youngest patient in our study was a 3 years old child and the oldest one was of 90 years.…”

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Metastatic Lymphadenopathy in Kashmir Valley: A Clinicopathological Study

Qadri¹,

Hamdani²,

Shah³

et al. 2014

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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Background: Lymphadenopathy is a common presentation in both benign and malignant diseases which need to be diagnosed without delay. Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) helps us diagnose a disease and follow its course, including the response to therapy. Aim: This study aimed to analyze the clinicopathological features of metastatic lymphadenopathy and the diagnostic utility of FNAC in our setting. Materials and Methods: This two-year prospective study included all the patients with metastatic lymphadenopathy, diagnosed with FNAC. Results: A total of 412 cases (male:female ratio, 1.3:1; age range, 3 to 90 years) were studied. Supraclavicular lymph nodes were involved most commonly (50.5%). The commonest metastatic tumor was squamous cell carcinoma in general (30.1%) and in males (37.6%), and infiltrating ductal carcinoma (25.3%) in females. Lung, with 64 (15.5%) cases followed by esophagus, 60 (14.6%) cases; breast, 49 (11.9%) cases; skin, 32 (7.8%) cases; and stomach, 25 (6.1%) cases were the most common primary sites of malignancy. In 69 patients, excision biopsy was performed. Histopathological findings correlated well with that of cytology in all these cases. Conclusions: FNAC is an important tool in the diagnostic work up of metastatic lymphadenopathy, which in the hands of an experienced and skilful cytopathologist can avoid the need for excision biopsy.

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Fine needle aspiration cytology of supraclavicular lymph nodes: Our experience over a three-year period

Cited by 38 publications

References 7 publications

Profile of Lymphadenopathy in Kashmir Valley: a Cytological Study

Profile of Lymphadenopathy in Kashmir Valley: a Cytological Study

Cytological Study of Cervical Lymphadenopathy in a Trtiary Care Institution from Kashmir Valley, India

Metastatic Lymphadenopathy in Kashmir Valley: A Clinicopathological Study

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