The system includes approximately 800 lymph nodes strategically positioned throughout your body, with significant clusters in the neck, armpits, chest, abdomen, and groin. When allergens enter ...

Breast cancer that has spread to lymph nodes may be treated more aggressively than localized cancer, because it has a greater potential to travel to other parts of the body. You have thousands of ...

A lymph node biopsy is when a doctor checks and removes a small piece of tissue or sample of cells from one of your lymph nodes. The doctor sends this to the laboratory and a specialist doctor called ...

A rash accompanied by swollen lymph nodes usually stems from a viral infection, such as measles, chickenpox, or mononucleosis. A rash is an inflammatory response that causes changes to your skin ...

But while others were exploring their own bodies, she painted the male anatomy. By Penelope Green Eunice Golden, whose bold paintings of male nudes challenged ideas about feminism, art and ...

Intraoperative frozen biopsy and sentinel lymph nodes technique have not shown sufficient accuracy to avoid extended lymphadenectomy, due to the significant rates of skip lymphatic metastasis.

Lymph nodes are small organs that are distributed throughout the body and drain lymph fluid from the tissues. Immune cells reside in lymph nodes and survey the lymph for signs of infection.

This process can also occur when the removal of groin lymph nodes leads to swelling of the leg on that side. This is more common when more lymph nodes are removed with extensive surgery ...

They may feel hard and painful. Swollen lymph nodes usually occur in the head, neck, armpits, or groin. Several factors can cause swollen lymph nodes, such as: In most cases, swollen lymph nodes ...

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Prostate cancer may cause leg pain if the disease spreads to the lymph nodes around the groin or bones. Prostate cancer causes prostate cells to grow uncontrollably. When prostate cancer reaches ...

Minh Nguyen, MS2, from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, presented findings on the evolving trends in pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) during radical prostatectomy. Her ...