Lymph is the fluid in your lymphatic system. Blood reaches tiny capillaries that have small holes in them to let some of the fluid escape or seep out into the tissues. Along with the fluid are some ...

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.

The average adult has more than 800 lymph nodes that filter lymph and contain immune cells that fight infection. The largest clusters of lymph nodes are found in the neck, armpit, chest, upper abdomen ...

Others affect the lymph nodes in the armpit. Pain in the armpit may be due to an infection of lymph ... Pancoast tumors also cause swelling of the face, neck, or upper arms. 10. Hormonal Changes ...

This study explores the prognostic significance of tumor-draining lymph nodes (TDLNs) in OSCC ... this TDLN was used for analysis. If more than two nodes were metastasis positive, the node localized ...

Craig and Brittany Parrett brought their 13-year-old son Kingston to UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh at 1 AM on ...

More than half of head-and-neck cancer patients experience troublesome side effects from radiotherapy ... Prior to initiating a clinical study, neural networks were developed for the automatic ...

The inclusion criteria were as follows: 1) underwent thyroidectomy combined with unilateral or bilateral CND or modified radical neck dissection; 2) preoperative biopsy confirmed by pathology thyroid ...

Georgia, 21, says doctors told her she would 'get over' her symptoms before finally being hit with a devastating cancer ...

Georgia, 21, says doctors said her symptoms were just 'teenage problems' before finally being hit with a devastating cancer ...

Like lymph nodes, the structures have infection-fighting immune B cells in the middle and tumor-killing immune T cells on the outside. "We wanted to learn what these structures are doing." ...