Early symptoms of cervical lymphoma

Cervical lymphoma is a common malignant tumor disease, and many people in our lives will suffer from cervical lymphoma. What are the early symptoms of cervical lymphoma? Let me introduce it to you. Friends who are interested may wish to take a look.

Early symptoms of cervical lymphoma

I believe everyone knows that if you want to treat it early, you must find it. And if you want to find it early, you need to understand the symptoms of the disease, right? So what are the early symptoms of cervical lymphoma?

Local manifestations of cervical lymphoma symptoms

(1) Swollen lymph nodes

It includes superficial and deep lymph nodes. Its characteristics are progressive, painless, hard, and movable enlargement of lymph nodes. In the early stage, they are not adhered to each other, but in the late stage, they can fuse. Anti-inflammatory and anti-tuberculosis treatment is ineffective. Superficial lymph nodes are more common in the neck, followed by the axilla and the abdominal groove. Deep lymph nodes are more common in the mediastinum and beside the abdominal aorta.

(2) Local compression symptoms caused by lymph node enlargement

It mainly refers to deep lymph nodes, such as enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes, which can compress the esophagus and cause dysphagia; compress the superior vena cava and cause superior vena cava syndrome; compress the trachea and cause cough, chest tightness, dyspnea and cyanosis.

Lung and pleural infiltration causes cough and pleural effusion; bone infiltration causes bone pain and pathological fractures; skin infiltration causes skin itching and subcutaneous nodules.

Infiltration of tonsils, mouth, nose and pharynx causes dysphagia, nasal congestion and nasal tingling; infiltration of nervous system causes spinal cord compression, cranial neuropathy, etc. Once the patient has the above symptoms and signs, he should go to the hospital for examination to determine whether he has lymphoma.