Background: Lymph nodes enlargement are easily accessible on fine needle aspiration and hence it is a very simple and important diagnostic tool for lymph node lesions. Enlargement of lymph nodes in our country are predominantly infective in nature. It plays a significant role in developing countries like India, as it is cheap procedure, simple to perform and has almost no complications. The objective was to study the diagnosis of the underlying pathological variants, the incidence of the tuberculosis & malignancies, presenting with cervical lymphadenitis and also to diagnose various etiologies of cervical lymphadenitis in all age groups.