Systemic illness
- an infective cause may be indicated by
- fever
- rigors
- contact with persons with infectious diseases
- symptoms suggestive of a neoplasm include
- anorexia
- weight loss
- symptom interpretation is not easy:
- a lymphoma, a neoplasm of the lymph gland, can present with fever and night sweats, features that may also occur in an infective cause of lymph node enlargement.
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