Introduction:

enlarged lymph nodes produce a group of symptoms and signs that constitute the adenopathy syndrome. Lymph node disease is called adenopathy.

Objective:

to characterize patients who were admitted with adenoid syndrome to the Internal Medicine Service in the period from 2016 to 2018.

Methods:

a descriptive cross-sectional study was performed. The population consisted of patients admitted with a diagnosis of adenoid syndrome who underwent lymph node biopsy with a conclusive clinical and pathological diagnosis, with a total of 103 patients.

Results:

malignant adenopathies predominated in 74.8%, the average age of the patients was 57.48±17.25 years and male sex predominated (60.2%), lymph node metastases were the most frequent (33%), lung cancer, with nine patients, headed the causes of lymph node metastases and localized adenopathies predominated with 68% (36% were of cervical location). In patients with malignant lymphadenopathies, age over 50 years, male sex, white skin color, supraclavicular location, presence of accompanying symptoms such as weight loss and sweating and signs such as cutaneomucosal pallor and splenomegaly predominated.

Conclusions:

malignant adenopathies, cervical location, patients with average age close to elderly, male and white were predominant. Metastases were more frequent in lung cancer. Weight loss, sweating, pallor and splenomegaly were the most frequently found symptoms and signs.

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