LYMPHADENOPATHY

 

Generalized

• AIDS.

• Lymphoma: Hodgkin's disease, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

• Leukemias, reticuloendotheliosis.

• Infectious mononucleosis, CMV, and other viral infections.

• Diffuse skin infection: generalized furunculosis, multiple tick bites.

• Parasitic  infections:   toxoplasmosis,   filariasis,   leishmaniasis,  Chagas' disease.

• Serum sickness.

• Collagen vascular diseases (RA, SLE).

• Dengue (arbovirus infection).

• Sarcoidosis and other granulomatous diseases.

• Drugs: INH, hydantoin derivatives, antithyroid and antileprosy drugs.

• Secondary syphilis.

• Hyperthyroidism, lipid-storage diseases.

 

Localized

• Any of the causes of generalized lymphadenopathy.

• Draining  lymphatics  from  local  infection:   infected  furuncle,   throat infection, dental  abscess,  lymphogranuloma venereum, brucellosis, parasitic infections, cat-scratch disease.

• Neoplasm.

• TB (scrofula)