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Cervical lymph nodes swollen for a year. send rate elevated at 28 but cbc was normal. should i worry about lymphoma? took antibiotics with no help.

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Dr. Hernani Cualing answered

Specializes in Pathology

Lymphadenopathy: A year is a long time to have enlarged lymph Nodes and given your Hashimotos, it is possibly an autoimmune lymphadenopathy. You may need to set an oncology consult to properly Evaluate, perhaps even a diagnostic biopsy tissue examined by a hematopathologist to rule out a chronic type or indolent lymphoma. Check out chapters in our book, Nonneoplastic hematopathology .. For more info. Take care.

Answered 8/21/2016

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