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Should i be concerned if i had a chest x-ray done and they said i have calcification on my lymph node?
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Probably not: Lymph nodes calcify long after exposure to low grade granulomatous disease such as histoplasmosis. You may not even remember the exposure. Rarely tuberculosis can cause calcified lymph nodes. Almost always is benign.
Answered 3/25/2013
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Not to worry: Nodal calcifications on chest xray are usually related to granulomatous infecttion such as tuberculosis, histoplasmosis, coccidiodomycosis, sarcoidosis. Calcifications usually mean that infection has been acted upon either by body's autoimmune system or medications and is probably not active disease.Calcifications are sign of once having had the disese.Sometimes treated hodgkins lymphoma calcifies
Answered 1/4/2015
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