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

A lymph node dissection is a surgical procedure that involves the removal of the level 1 and 2 lymph nodes in the axilla (armpit). Removing a few lymph nodes doesn’t always cause problems and it ...

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 ...

Prospective nonrandomized evidence demonstrated a survival benefit for extended pelvic lymph node dissection. Improvement on staging has also been suggested by the presence of skip metastatic ...

To our knowledge this is the largest study directly comparing L-PCLND with O-PCLND patients. In concordance with previous studies we demonstrated that L-PCLND to represents a safe and reasonable ...

With mastectomy (removal of the entire breast, sometimes with lymph node dissection-removal of the lymph nodes in the armpit) can also follow. Mastectomy may or may not be followed by radiation ...

Ovarian Cancer: "This is a challenging procedure as the main vessels related to the heart are all around lymph nodes and so ...

If there are signs of cancer, your surgeon may do an ALND. Axillary lymph node dissection (ALND): Your doctor takes 10 to 40 lymph nodes from under your arm. These are checked under a microscope ...

A study by AIIMS found that removing the lymph nodes from the pelvis and rear abdominal walls can significantly improve the survival chances of ovarian cancer patients. Read on to know more about the ...