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What are the differences between reactive lymph nodes and nonspecific inflammatory lymph nodes?
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Not much: Lymph nodes are filters of disease processes and can react to infection, surgery, trauma, and tumor, nonspecific inflammatory nodes are reacting to inflammation of some sort can be tonsilllitis, sore throat, viral infection etc all these nodes are benign and usually will disappear once inciting process has resolved.
Answered 4/12/2013
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