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My father had laparoscopic mesentric lymph node biopsy.it shows retroperitoneal lymph node enlargement. what it is?
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many possibilities: It could a benign process or a malignant one. Only a biopsy inspected by a pathologist can say for sure.
Answered 10/18/2013
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