Clinical characteristic analysis of 837 patients who suffer from malignant tumescent neck lymph nodes

Objective: The lymphadenectasis in the neck part is the first symptom of some diseases. There is the important significance of instructing of the diagnosis and treatment of some diseases to analyze the relationship of the pathologic diagnosis and clinical feature. This study summing up 837 cases who visited in the hospital because of the lymph gland intumescence in the neck part was to explore the relationship of the different part or prognosis and pathologic character. Methods: Clinical data of 837 cases, with the lymphadenectasis in the neck treated from February 2005 to February 2012, were analyzed. Results: The age and part of onset, the prognosis of the patients with the lymphadenectasis in the neck part are different with the origin of diseases. The 3-year survival rate of cervical lymph node metastases is 25.7%; the prognosis of lymph node metastases in VB is most evil. Conclusions: As the first symptom to the malignant diseases with cervical lymph node metastases, the patients have the poorer prognostic. If the patients who have the metastatic carcinoma doubtfully and whose ages are above 40 have lymphadenectasis in supraclavicular region, we should get the pathologic diagnosis as far as possible.