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Is it possible for lymph node to enlarge during the fifth month of tb treatment? no weight loss or fever.is this hypersensitivity or what?

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Normal: It's possible to have enlarged lymph node after 6 months. It can be related to immune responsive reactivation or persistent TB inflammation. It's comment n to see what we call immune reactive inflammatory syndrome

Answered 1/12/2015

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