At this point in the pandemic, you’re fairly familiar with the laundry list of possible COVID-19 symptoms, including a fever, chills, body aches, a dry cough, shortness of breath, and a loss of taste ...

August 13, 2009 (Toronto, Ontario) — When papillary thyroid cancer returns, it is often in the form of metastases to the neck lymph nodes and is usually treated with surgery. But these patients have ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- As more people are getting vaccinated, doctors are seeing an influx of women making mammogram appointments after noticing swollen lymph nodes in the arm region where they got ...

Lymph nodes are part of the lymphatic system, which is a complex network of nodes and vessels. In certain areas of the body, such as the neck, armpit, and groin, lymph nodes sit close to the skin.

A neck dissection is surgery to remove all or some of the lymph nodes and surrounding tissue from the neck. Lymph nodes are small, round or bean-shaped glands. They remove germs from your body, help ...

The number of positive lymph nodes can help guide treatment for locally advanced head and neck cancer, according to a recent study. In planning adjuvant chemoradiotherapy (CRT) in some patients with ...

A variety of factors go in to the staging of a head and neck cancer diagnosis, however, the number of malignant lymph nodes may very well be the key to prognosis and treatment moving forward in this ...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the occult lymph node carcinomatous diffusion in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). A total of 1328 lymph nodes from 31 patients treated ...