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Patient may experience weight loss, fatigue and night sweats. Common physical examination findings of follicular lymphoma include fever, rash, spleenomegaly, peripheral lymphadenopathy and central lymphadenopathy. | |||
Patient may experience weight loss, fatigue and night sweats.Common physical examination findings of follicular lymphoma include fever, rash, spleenomegaly, peripheral lymphadenopathy and central lymphadenopathy. | |||
==Physical examination== | ==Physical examination== | ||
Patient may experience weight loss, fatigue and night sweats.<ref name="seer">National Cancer Institute. Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program 2015. http://seer.cancer.gov</ref> | Patient may experience weight loss, fatigue and night sweats.<ref name="seer">National Cancer Institute. Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program 2015. http://seer.cancer.gov</ref> |
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Sowminya Arikapudi, M.B,B.S. [2]
Overview
Patient may experience weight loss, fatigue and night sweats. Common physical examination findings of follicular lymphoma include fever, rash, spleenomegaly, peripheral lymphadenopathy and central lymphadenopathy.
Physical examination
Patient may experience weight loss, fatigue and night sweats.[1]
Temperature
- Fever is often present
Skin
- Rash may be present
Neck
- Lymph nodes may be present (Peipheral lymphadenopathy)
Thorax
- Lymph nodes may be present (Central lymphadenopathy)
- Pain in chest may be present
Abdomen
- Lymph nodes may be present (Central lymphadenopathy)
- Spleenomegaly
- Pain in abdomen may be present
Extremities
- Lymph nodes may be present in under arm and groin (Peipheral lymphadenopathy)
- Pain in bones may be present
References
- ↑ National Cancer Institute. Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program 2015. http://seer.cancer.gov