Lightroom catalog export and re-import

I am not new to Lr, and I do know how to export catalogs, or collections, etc. However, what I am concenred about it is exporting, lets say a collection "as a catalog" and taking it to another computer for edits, then bringing it back to the origianl computer or hard drive. My concern is in how it comes back to the original computer. Is there a way to do this so that it goes right back exactly the way it was before I exported it? I don't want the edited collection to come back as a new or separate collection. Is this something that can be done?
Thanks a lot.
Richard

Thanks for your response. What I'm essentially wanting is for the new edits to go into the catalog and after that there being no indication there was ever an export/import... In other words my folder structure on the master computer to look the same. Also, is it true that once the edits are imported back to original computer/catalog - the raw image files that were originally exported as part of the "export as catalog" can be deleted as they are now just dupes, or extraneous?
Thanks again.
Richard

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