Sonographic Diagnosis of Tuberculous Lymphadenitis in the Neck

• DOI: 10.7863/ultra.33.9.1619
• Publication Date: 2014-08-25T22:00:56Z
• Authors: Jun Ho Park; Dong Wook Kim
• Keywords: Tuberculous lymphadenitis

The aim of this study was to assess the diagnostic accuracy individual sonographic features and diagnosis for patients with a clinical suspicion tuberculous lymphadenitis in neck.From January 2010 December 2011, 79 who underwent neck sonography sonographically guided fine-needle aspiration tuberculosis polymerase chain reaction analysis were enrolled study. each patient retrospectively investigated by single radiologist using picture archiving communication system, according number developed. Follow-up sonography, reaction, core needle biopsy, or excision biopsy lymph nodes from used final diagnosis.The diagnoses finally confirmed as (n = 40), suppurative 2), Kikuchi disease 12), metastatic 9), nonspecific 16). No both high sensitivity specificity found. In receiver operating characteristic diagnosis, category 2 more showed highest area under curve. When "2 more" selected, sensitivity, specificity, positive negative predictive values, 95.0%, 79.5%, 82.6%, 93.9%, 87.3%, respectively.Although no feature had detection lymphadenitis, higher than those other categories.