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Ct pet brown fat in neck/ mediastinum near small lymph node difficult to know if node hypermetabolic suv low in node not enlarged. significance?
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Ultrasound neck: Lymph node small size usually mitigates against neoplasm. An easy way of following lymph node would be ultrasound in a month to see if node enlarges or is stable in size. Tumors usually grow with time.
Answered 9/28/2016
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