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Patient presenting with cervical lymph node enlargement is common in Otorhinolaryngology out-patient department of different hospitals of India. In many cases it becomes difficult to know the cause of lymphadenopathy without doing a battery of investigations. Often on fine needle aspiration cytology, lymph node in the neck is found to be metastatic, but site of prinary tumour becomes difficult to find out. Here a case in presented with multiple bilateral cervical lymphadenopathy with a diagnostic dilemma where the diagnosis changed repetitively from one doctor to another and from one laboratory to another
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Sengupta, A., Das, S. & Chakrabarty, S. Diagnostic dilemma in bilateral multiple cervical lymphadenopathy. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 57, 56–58 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02907632
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