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 ...

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 ...

Lymph nodes are clustered throughout the body and function as filters, removing foreign particles from fluids that run ...

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 ...

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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.

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.

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.