Medical history (history of illness) represents an important component in the diagnosis of lymph node enlargement (lymphadenopathy).
Family history
- Are there any individuals in your family with immunodeficiencies?
Social history
- What is your profession?
Current medical history/systemic history (somatic and psychological complaints).
- How long has the lymph node enlargement been present?
- Does it affect one or more regions?
- Do the changes hurt?
- Do they change in size, redness, etc.?
- Do you have night sweats?
- Do you have a fever?
- Do you have any unwanted weight loss?
- Do you have any other symptoms?
Vegetative anamnesis including nutritional anamnesis.
- Have you unintentionally lost body weight? Please tell us your body weight (in kg) and height (in cm).
- Do you smoke? If so, how many cigarettes, cigars or pipes per day?
- Do you drink alcohol? If yes, what drink(s) and how many glasses per day?
- Do you use drugs? If yes, what drugs and how often per day or per week?
Self history incl. medication history.
- Pre-existing conditions (infections, tumor diseases).
- Operations
- Allergies
Medication history
- Allopurinol – drug used for gout.
- Antiepileptic drugs – drugs for epilepsy such as carbamazepine, phenytoin or primidone.
- Dapsone – chemotherapeutic agent, which is used mainly in leprosy or primary chronic polyarthritis.
- Gold
- Hydralazine – drug for high blood pressure (antihypertensive).
- Isoniazid – drug against tuberculosis (tuberculostat).
- Procainamide – drug against cardiac arrhythmias (antiarrhythmic).
