HISTOPATHOLOGICAL STUDY OF NON NEOPLASTIC LESIONS OF CERVICAL LYMPH NODES.

Lymph node diseases are showing rising trend worldwide. A number of studies have been done in order to know the magnitude of problem. Cervical lymphadenopathy is one of the commonest clinical presentations. The involvement of lymph node by non neoplastic conditions is much more common than the neoplastic processes. The knowledge of the pattern of lymphadenopathy in a given geographical region is essential for making a confident diagnosis or suspecting a disease.Though fine needle aspiration cytology is commonly used to establish the etiological diagnosis, excision biopsy and histopathology of the lymph node remains the “gold standard” for diagnosis of lymphadenopathy. The present study focuses on most common non-neoplastic lesions of cervical lymph nodes and their histopathological diagnosis.