When a person has an infection, they may notice swollen lymph nodes in part of the body near the infection site, such as their neck, armpit, jaw, or groin. Cancer that develops in or spreads to ...

Cancers of the mouth and oropharynx can spread to lymph nodes in your neck. Your surgeon might remove some or all of the lymph nodes in your neck. Lymph nodes are small bean shaped glands found ...

Cancer of the larynx sometimes spreads to the lymph nodes in the neck. Surgery to remove lymph nodes from your neck is called a neck dissection. When you might have surgery to remove lymph nodes in ...

N3 Cancer cells have spread to lymph nodes on the opposite side of the chest to the tumor or to lymph nodes near the collarbone or neck muscles. While each advancing number in the N value describes a ...

Usually, swollen chest lymph nodes are too deep in the chest for a person to feel them. Any swollen lymph nodes in the chest appear on imaging scans. Swelling can indicate an underlying condition.

If there is an associated infection, for example, in mouth or throat infection—can cause neck lymph nodes to be enlarged and usually a course of antibiotics and some supportive treatment is given.

This study was approved by the institutional review board of all 13 participating institutions (see Additional file 1 https://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2490/15/79 ...

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 lymphatic system thus acts as a part of the immune system, supporting these soft tissues and fighting infections. Lymph “nodes” are like subway station stops — hubs where “passengers” like red and ...

Micrometastases are small collections of cancer cells that have been shed from a cancerous tumor and have spread to another part of the body through the blood or lymph nodes. Micrometastases can then ...

Background: Extramedullary hemopoiesis (EMH) is a rare condition characterized by abnormal blood cell production outside the bone marrow, commonly occurring in the liver, spleen, lymph nodes, and less ...

A small tumor is T1 and a large tumor is T4. N refers to whether or not the cancer has spread to neck lymph nodes. N0 means the cancer has not spread, while N3 means that it has spread to many ...