Table 1. Demographic and lymph node characteristics of TBL suspects included in this study (n = 143).
Demographics characteristics | N (%) | |
Sex | Male | 67 (46.9) |
Female | 76 (53.1) | |
Age-years | ≤ 15 | 22 (15.4) |
16–30 | 83 (58.0) | |
31–45 | 23 (16.1) | |
>45 | 15 (10.5) | |
Lymph node characteristics | N (%) | |
Lymph node sites | Cervical | 100 (69.9) |
Axillary | 29 (20.3) | |
Inguinal | 14 (9.8) | |
Specimen appearance | Purulent | 73 (50.1) |
Caseous | 58 (40.6) | |
Bloody stained | 12 (8.4) |