including the neck on either side of the front, sides, and back, behind your ears, on the back of your head, or under your jaw and chin. Swollen lymph nodes are also called lymphadenopathy.

One of the most frequent causes of swollen lymph nodes in your neck is a viral upper respiratory infection (URI) such as the common cold, influenza or infectious mononucleosis, says Dr. Maas.

compared the results of ultrasound scans with the pathological findings from dissected lymph nodes of 19 patients who underwent neck surgery for DTC recurrence. Of 578 lymph nodes resected ...

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