Author/Editor		Anžič, J
Title		Rak bezgavk
Translated title		Malignancies of lymph nodes
Type		članek
Source		Slov Pediatr
Vol. and No.		Letnik 6, št. 4
Publication year		1999
Volume		str. 104-7
Language		slo
Abstract		Enlarged lymph nodes may be the first warning symptom of cancer. They mya indicate the presence of metastases or the primary site for the disease. Cancerous adenopathy does not itself have any specific features. From 1989 to 1998, 464 first-time oncological patients were diagnosed and treated on the haemato-oncological unit of the Department of Paediatrics, Clinical centre, Ljubljana (central nervous system primaries were excluded). 85 children (17 % of on- cological cases) were diagnosed by cytological or pathohistological examination of enlarged lymph nodes. Conclusions: Cancer is a life-threatening disease that may present with lymph node enlargement. Clinicians should proceed to examine the enlarged node cytologically or pathohistologically wherever there are clinical grounds for the presence of cancer.
Summary		Pri otroku se bezgavke lahko povečajo zaradi rakavih zasevkov ali pa je v njih samih prvo žarišče bolezni. Z rakom obolela bezgavka nima samo zanjo značilnih prepoznavnih lastnosti. Povečane bezgavke so lahko prvo opozorilo na raka pri otroku. V času od 1989-1998 smo v Službi za onkologijo in hematologijo Pediatrične klinike v Ljubljani odkrili raka in ga zdravili pri 464 novih bolnikih (bolniki s primarno boleznijo v osrednjem živčevju niso upoštevani). Pri 85 otrocih (17 %) smo bolezen ugotovili s citološkim ali patohistološkim pregledom povečanih bezgavk. Rak je bolezen, ki ogroža življenje; nanj lahko opozore povečane bezgavke. Pri klinično utemeljenem sumu na raka bezgavk moramo opraviti tankoigelno biopsijo bezgavke ali celo bezgavko odstraniti za patohistološki pregled.
Descriptors		LYMPHADENITIS LYMPHATIC METASTASIS HODGKIN'S DISEASE LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN'S CHILD LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE HISTIOCYTOSIS NEUROBLASTOMA