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My son had a biopsy on a lymph node in his neck. it came back benign but has a collection of white blood cells. what does this mean?

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Dr. Ed Friedlander answered

Normal: All healthy lymph nodes have clusters of different types of white cells. They're your friends. If the pathologist did not give an additional diagnosis (for example, tuberculosis or Kikuchi-Fujimoto), consider yourself healthy.

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Answered 7/31/2018

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A member asked:

My son had a biopsy on a lymph node in his neck. it came back benign but has a collection of white blood cells. what does this mean?

A doctor has provided 1 answer

Dr. Ed Friedlander answered

Dr Ferguson and 3 doctors agreed

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