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Ct scan was done said had portacaval lymph nodes slightly enlarged, is it cancer?
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Need Bx: The CT can shoe the enlarged nodes, but is not necessarily diagnostic of cancer. A biopsy would be definitive for a diagnosis. Best wishes.
Answered 4/2/2018
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