By the time the diagnosis was confirmed a week later, following further imaging studies and an endoscopic evaluation, the tumour was found to have spread to the liver, the lymph nodes around the ...

Lymph node metastasis was uncommon among clinically node-negative PTC patients without evidence of nodal involvement on USG and CT.

The lymph nodes in your neck and other parts of your body can be swollen for years, but this does not always mean it is a sign of cancer. You might have a common cold, throat infection ...

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 ...

You usually have this test as an outpatient in your hospital imaging department. Depending on where in your body the lymph nodes are, your doctor may also use a CT scan to guide the biopsy needle.

Ischemic colitis reduces blood flow to the colon or large intestine. Mesenteric ischemia is a reduction in blood flow to the small intestine due to the narrowing of the arteries. Both conditions ...

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.

As the vast majority of these patients are going to have node-negative disease with a low risk primary tumor, we know that postmenopausal women, even if they're found to have one to three positive ...