Spectrum of Metastatic Cervical Lymphadenopathy on Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology in Greater Gwalior Region: A 6 Month Prospective Study

Dr. K.S.Mangal; Dr. Lokesh Tripathi; Dr. Rajesh Gaur

Volume : V, Issue : V, May - 2016

Spectrum of Metastatic Cervical Lymphadenopathy on Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology in Greater Gwalior Region: A 6 Month Prospective Study

Dr. K. S. Mangal, Dr. Lokesh Tripathi, Dr. Rajesh Gaur

Abstract :

Aim: This study were performed to find out the spectrum of metastatic cervical lymphadenopathy in the patients presented to the department of Pathology, G.R.M.C., Gwalior (M.P.), a tertiary care hospital .In this 6 month prospective study, a total of 116 cases were examined, there were 24 cases in which the primary origin of metastatic malignancy could not be found out. There were male predominance in the study with M:F ratio of 2.31:1. Majority of the patients were 60-80 years age group. Maximum cases (n=77) were from Oro-pharyngeal region with squamous cell carcimoma, mostly well differentiated type. This was followed by papillary carcinoma of thyroid and ductal cell carcinoma of east. It was concluded that most prevalent metastatic tumor to cervical lymph nodes in our region is squamous cell carcinoma especially in males which is most likely due to heavy addiction of tobacco chewing and smoking in this gender.