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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Lymphadenopathy"”.
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Observer variation in detecting lymphadenopathy on chest radiography
… agreement on the presence or absence of lymphadenopathy, reported as present, absent or equivocal, and expressed as weighted Kappa statistics. Results. Weighted Kappa for the six pairs of observers ranged from 0.14 (95% Cl 0.02-0.30) to 0.52 (95% CT 0.35-0.69). After a 3-month interval …
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The diagnostic accuracy of abdominal ultrasound findings in patients evaluated for peripheral lymphadenopathy in a high HIV TB endemic population
… referred to a biopsy clinic with unexplained lymphadenopathy. Method: This was a retrospective descriptive study of patients attending the peripheral lymph node biopsy clinic at Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH) between 2017 and 2020 who had abdominal ultrasound examination while being investigated …
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The diagnostic pathway to a surgical lymph node excision biopsy service in a HIV and TB endemic region in a Western Cape Tertiary Institution
… consideration of patients with persistent lymphadenopathy is focused towards extra- pulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB), more than other infectious or malignant causes of lymphadenopathy. We investigated patients consecutively referred for lymph node excision at Groote Schuur Hospital for …
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Evaluation of the utility of specific CXR features for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in young children using multiple readers
… observers agree, namely those signs indicating lymphadenopathy. AIM: To identify simple and reliable CXR features of primary TB in children by determining signs and anatomical sites of best observer agreement. METHOD: This is a retrospective descriptive study within a clinical trial performed by …
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The role of abdominal ultrasound in the investigation of suspected extrapulmonary and disseminated tuberculosis
… study in order to determine whether abdominal lymphadenopathy detected at ultrasound examination could be used as an indicator of the presence of active extrapulmonary and/or disseminated TB.
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Abdominal Tuberculosis is common and under-diagnosed in HIV positive Adults in Zambia
… persisting for >1 month, ascites, abdominal lymphadenopathy based on ultrasound, mesenteric masses based on ultrasound, hepatomegaly or splenomegaly, pancreatic enlargement, or unexplained focal or generalised pain/tenderness persisting over 7 days. The exclusion criteria included: HIV …
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Abdominal Tuberculosis is common and under-diagnosed in HIV positive Adults in Zambia
… persisting for >1 month, ascites, abdominal lymphadenopathy based on ultrasound, mesenteric masses based on ultrasound, hepatomegaly or splenomegaly, pancreatic enlargement, or unexplained focal or generalised pain/tenderness persisting over 7 days. The exclusion criteria included: HIV …
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Atypical reactive lymphoid hyperplasia : a 5 year study with analysis of 10 cases for latent Epstein-Barr virus infection by in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry
… epidemiological analysis of cases of reactive lymphadenopathy and atypical reactive lymphoid hyperplasia (ARLH) received in the Department of Anatomical Pathology, UCT and GSH, over a 5 year period, in order to determine the number of cases of ARLH, and the frequency of the various subtypes of …
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ΑΝΤΙΣΩΜΑΤΑ ΚΑΤΑ ΚΑΡΔΙΟΛΙΠΙΝΗΣ: ΚΛΙΝΙΚΗ ΣΗΜΑΣΙΑ
… INCLUDING SPLENOMEGALY AND/OR DIFFUSE LYMPHADENOPATHY (P<0.001) ANTI- NUCLEAR ANTIBODIES (P<0.01), ANTIBODIES TO RO(SSA) (P<0.01), TO U1NRNP (P<0.005)AND TO DOUBLE-STRANDED DNA (P<0.005). THERE WAS NO CORRELATION WITH THE PRESENCE OF THROMBOTIC EVENTS, HEMATOLOGIC OR OBSTETRIC …
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Kikuchi Disease in Korean Children : Clinical Features and Disease Courses
… Kikuchi’s disease (KD) is a benign disorder with lymphadenopathy, and prevalent in young Asian women. The presentations mimic some serious diseases, and the biopsy of lymph nodes is the only definite diagnostic tool. We analyzed data from a series of pediatric cases and suggest proper guideline of …
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The utility of abdominal ultrasound in the diagnosis of paediatric abdominal tuberculosis: a single centre review
… disease. The commonest reported features were lymphadenopathy, 77% (128/166) and splenic microabscesses, 55% (92/166) for which substantial inter-reader agreement was documented, Fleiss' kappa = 0.64 and 0.66 respectively. There was moderate inter-reader agreement in the diagnosis of abdominal …
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Comparison of 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT) and conventional imaging (CI) for locally advanced breast cancer staging: a prospective study from a tertiary hospital cancer centre in Western Cape
… imaging in assessing metastatic mediastinal lymphadenopathy, but with a poor specificity. The use of 18F-FDG PET/CT in LABC is useful, with the biopsy of isolated suspicious lesions for metastasis increasing its accuracy.
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Ανάλυση λεμφοκυτταρικών υποπληθυσμών στην χρόνια λεμφογενή λευχαιμία με χρήση μονοκλωνικών αντισωμάτων: Προγνωστική σημασία ανοσολογικών παραμέτρων
… A small group of 7 patients with pronounced lymphadenopathy and marginary increased blood lymphocytes (4.5-10x10⁹/1), all of them with heavy infiltration of bone marrow, has been included in a seperate category (lymphoma-like disease) and found to have a mean percentage of CD16+ cells of …
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A comparative cost analysis of the pathway to diagnosing lymphoma in a tertiary hospital, Western Cape, South Africa
… trying to understand the underlying cause of lymphadenopathy (LAP), which can lead to delayed diagnosis of lymphoma (Antel et al., 2019). A significant gap exists in the lack of costing of the diagnostic pathway to diagnosing lymphoma. The study aimed to cost the diagnostic pathways, namely …
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Lymphoma: Understanding the diagnostic challenges and improving outcomes in a TBand HIV-endemic area
… apply this test in a diagnostic algorithm for lymphadenopathy of unknown aetiology, both on a fine-needle aspirate (FNA) from a lymph node and on tissue obtained by corebiopsy. (iii) Investigate whether a rapid-access lymph node biopsy clinic that used a core-biopsy method for lymph node biopsy …
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An evidence-based algorithm for the rapid diagnosis of tuberculosis in HIV positive patients presenting to emergency centres
… predictors identified were intra-abdominal lymphadenopathy of any size (aDOR 3.7; 95%CI 2.0-6.7), ascites (aDOR 3.0; 95%CI 1.5-5.7), and pericardial effusion of any size (aDOR 1.9; 95%CI 1.2-3.0). Two or more independent point-of-care ultrasound predictors had 33% (95%CI 27–41) sensitivity …
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TLR4 endogenous ligand S100A8/A9 levels in adult-onset Still’s disease and their association with disease activity and clinical manifestations
… AOSD patients with skin rashes and 8 AOSD with lymphadenopathy were investigated via immunohistochemistry. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from active AOSD and HC were evaluated for IL-1β release, and in vitro study with PBMC and THP-1 cell line was done for cell signal of S100A8/A9. …
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Cytohistologic correlation of suspected Cervicofacial Head & Neck Extra-Pulmonary Tuberculosis in children: A retrospective case series
… tissue samples for microbiology confirmation. Lymphadenopathy in children with suspected cervicofacial TB are amenable to FNA or surgery for further cytological and histological assessment. It is therefore important to understand how well the morphologic features (from cytology and histology) …
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Cardiac sarcoidosis defined by cardiovascular magnetic resonance: patient characteristics and outcomes
… of sarcoidosis were characterised by hilar lymphadenopathy and pulmonary interstitial involvement (49%) and pleural effusions (11%). There were no deaths during the study period and median follow-up of 7 years. Conclusions: Sarcoidosis is a granulomatous systemic multiorgan condition that is …
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The evaluation of different strategies to improve the diagnosis of tuberculosis in people living with HIV in resource-limited settings
… (< 8 g/dL), body mass index (<18.5kg/m²), and lymphadenopathy had high specificities (80–90%) but low sensitivities (29–43%). The WHO Xpert algorithm had a sensitivity of only 58% (50,66) and a specificity of 99% (98, 100); Xpert for all had a sensitivity of 68% (57–76) and similar specificity. …
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