OBJECTIVE To review the age incidence, common pathohistologic subtypes, and anatomical nodal sites of lymph nodes involvement for histology. MATERIALS AND METHODS A 25 (May 1985-June 2010) years retrospective study of all patients who had lymph node biopsy. SETTING Department of Pathology and Haematology, University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City, Nigeria. RESULTS Of 821 lymph nod...

This paper highlights the principle of non-maleficence from sections of the Hippocratic oath and those entailed in various declarations of medical ethics and conduct. The moral dilemmas associated with adherence or efforts at adherence to the principle were indicated with the use of prepared cases. The centrality of the paper is the moral conflict encountered by physicians in their efforts at m...