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  2. Cervical lymphadenopathy - Wikipedia

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    In adults, healthy lymph nodes can be palpable (able to be felt), in the axilla, neck and groin. [3] In children up to the age of 12 cervical nodes up to 1 cm in size may be palpable and this may not signify any disease. [4] If nodes heal by resolution or scarring after being inflamed, they may remain palpable thereafter. [1]

  3. Mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis - Wikipedia

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    About 95% of the scrofula cases in adults are caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, most often in immunocompromised patients (about 50% of cervical tuberculous lymphadenopathy). In immunocompetent children, scrofula is often caused by atypical mycobacteria ( Mycobacterium scrofulaceum ) and other nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM).

  4. Lymphadenopathy - Wikipedia

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    Lymphadenopathy of an inflammatory type (the most common type) is lymphadenitis, [1] producing swollen or enlarged lymph nodes. In clinical practice, the distinction between lymphadenopathy and lymphadenitis is rarely made and the words are usually treated as synonymous. Inflammation of the lymphatic vessels is known as lymphangitis. [2]

  5. Adenitis - Wikipedia

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    Lymph adenitis or lymph node adenitis is caused by infection in lymph nodes. The infected lymph nodes typically become enlarged, warm and tender. A swelling of lymph nodes due to growth of lymph cells is called lymphadenopathy. Types include: [citation needed] Neck Cervical adenitis is an inflammation of a lymph node in the neck.

  6. Periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis and adenitis

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    Periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis and adenitis syndrome is a medical condition, typically occurring in young children, in which high fever occurs periodically at intervals of about 3–5 weeks, frequently accompanied by aphthous-like ulcers, pharyngitis and cervical adenitis (cervical lymphadenopathy). The syndrome was described ...

  7. Kikuchi disease - Wikipedia

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    The signs and symptoms of Kikuchi disease are fever, enlargement of the lymph nodes (lymphadenopathy), skin rashes, and headache. [7] In sixty to ninety percent of cases, lymphadenopathy presents in the posterior cervical lymph nodes with diameter enlargement typically being between one and two centimeters, but up to seven centimeters has been reported in literature.

  8. HPV 'cures' are popping up online, but here's the truth about ...

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    Between 2012 and 2019, cervical cancer incidence among women ages 20 to 24 dropped by 65%, an American Cancer Society report found. In addition, fewer teens and young adults get genital warts as a ...

  9. Aphthous stomatitis - Wikipedia

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    The name stands for "periodic fever, aphthae, pharyngitis (sore throat) and cervical adenitis" (inflammation of the lymph nodes in the neck). The fevers occur periodically about every 3–5 weeks. The condition appears to improve with tonsillectomy or immunosuppression, suggesting an immunologic cause. [16]