Have Tender Swollen Nodes In Groin Area After Cervical Lymphadenopathy. Do I Need A Lymph Node Biopsy?
Would like to also add that this started as redness andninflammationnon one side of throat...particularly the anterior and posterior pillars on right side. Then inflammation started on left side as well...then all over mouth. Had little nodules or polyps come up by tonsils & back of tongue as well as on alveolar mucosa. Little capillaries are red and inflamed. I have good oral hygiene. None of my dr's know what is going on. Please help! I have now been on an antibiotic, antifungal, steroid, antiviral with no change.
After going through your query, I would like to coment the following:
1. Your condition seems to be infective at presentation.
2. Non response to anti infective therapy demands that a culture and drug sensitivity be XXXXXXX on the tisuue biopsy sample if possible.
3. If no tissue is available than please go for excision biopsy of the supraclavicular lyph node along with culture and drug sensitivity testing of the same.
4. Other foci of infection elsewhere in the body need to be searched for.
5. A retro viral testing for HIV will be helpful.
6. Meanwhile antibiotic therapy needs to be tailored according to response.
7. A possibility of extra pulmonary tuerculosis also needs to kept and investigation like interferon gold will help.
8. An ultrasonography of abdomen for intra abdominal lymph nodes should be done.
I hope I have answered your query. I will be glad to answer follow up queries if any.
Please accept my answer if you have no follow up queries.
Regards
Dr. Gyanshankar Mishra
MBBS MD DNB