Article: High-resolution MRI scans to look for spread of melanoma to nearby lymph nodes.(SKIN CANCER)(magnetic resonance imaging)(Brief article)

Article: Lymph Nodes in Breast Cancer: So Who's ...
Clinical Oncology Alert;  March 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Lymph Nodes in Breast Cancer: So Whos Counting ... tumors. Expression of changes in the lymph nodes could be characterized by either hyperplasia ... an increased number of tumor-free lymph nodes. Because information on the size of ...

Article: Distance of Lymph Nodes From the Tumor: An ...
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  February 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... staging systems.[1-3] The number of lymph nodes required for an adequate staging, however ... injection of patent blue dye to identify the lymph nodes draining the tumors. We investigated ... assessed whether another feature of lymph nodes--their distance from the primary ...

Article: Number of Lymph Nodes Examined and Its Impact on ...
The American Surgeon;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...The status of lymph nodes is the most important prognosticates ... study was to determine the number of lymph nodes that needs to be examined to accurately ... significantly more likely to have positive lymph nodes (P = 0.03). Patients with advanced ...

Article: Pathologic evaluation of sentinel lymph nodes in ...
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  December 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Intraoperative mapping of such sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) has been reported in cases ... peritumoral subserosa. Blue-stained lymph nodes were suture-tagged by the surgeon ... at 10 levels. Results.-Sentinel lymph nodes were identified intraop eratively in ...

Article: METASTATIC AND INFLAMMATORY CERVICAL LYMPH NODES AS ...
The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... sonography (CCDS) in evaluating enlarged lymph nodes has been subject to numerous attempts ... contrast-enhanced CCDS in cervical lymph nodes offers new possibilities of differential ... 28 patients with clinically enlarged lymph nodes were included in this study. Contrast ...

Lymph nodes, enlarged.(Adult Health ...
Clinical Reference Systems;  November 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...What are lymph nodes? Lymph nodes are part of the lymph system. The lymph system helps the body fight infection. It includes the lymph nodes, lymph vessels, and other parts of the body's immune and ...

Article: Pathologic Evaluation of Sentinel Lymph Nodes in ...
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  December 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... procedures are designed to remove regional lymph nodes as a component of the resection. However ... for histologic examination of all the lymph nodes resected surgically. Small positive lymph nodes may be missed at the time of gross pathologic ...