Role of CECT abdomen in evaluation of abdominal lymph nodes in different abdominal pathologies: Does size of lymph nodes really matter?

Abstract

Many disease, neoplastic, infective, inflammatory, autoimmune result in abdominal lymphadenopathy. Because there is a complex pattern of intercommunications between regional groups of lymph nodes, it is usual for lymphadenopathy to involve several contiguous or even widely separated nodule chains. The abdominal lymph nodes are empirically divided into groups:1.Retrocrural2.Retroperitoneal3.Porta hepatis4.Gastrohepatic ligament5.Celiac and superior meseneteric artery6.Preaortic and paraaortic7.Pancreaticoduodenal8.Perisplenic9.Periumbilical10.MesentericAims and Objectives1.To evaluate lymph nodes in different abdominal pathologies i.e. group of lymphnodes involved, morphology, size etc.2.To assess the size of lymph nodes in different abdominal pathologies.