CLINIKAL FEATURES OF SPECIFIC LIMPHADENOPATHIES IN PATIENTS OF THE NATIONAL CENTER OF PHTHISIATRY OF THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC FOR THE PERIOD FROM 2010 TO 2014
The share of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) in the Kyrgyz Republic (KR) for the period from 2002 to 2014 decreased from 50,6 to 27,5 cases, but the threshold remains high. Among 90 patients with lymphadenopathy, TB was diagnosed in 48 patients who applied only for 2-8 months of active TB. Tuberculosis of peripheral lymph nodes (TPLN) was recorded in patients aged 18 to 65 years, developed more often in 68,7% of women, in 6,7% of cases occurred with active respiratory TB and 4,2% with HIV infection. In 37 (77 ± 15,8%) patients, TPLN was localized in the cervical lymph nodes. Almost every third patient (31,2%), TPLN was diagnosed in an epidemiologically neglected-fistulous variant of the course.