A lymph node biopsy is a test that checks for disease in your lymph nodes. Lymph nodes are small, oval-shaped organs located in different parts of your body. They’re found close to internal organs ...

If your doctor says you should get a lymph node biopsy, it's because they need to check for signs of disease, such as cancer. They take out a small piece of one of your lymph nodes and send it to a ...

Inguinal metastases in patients affected by anal cancer are an independent prognostic factor for local failure and overall mortality. Since 2001, sentinel lymph node biopsy was applied in these ...

A lymph node biopsy is when a doctor checks and removes a small piece of tissue or sample of cells from one of your lymph nodes. The doctor sends this to the laboratory and a specialist doctor called ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the use of ultrasound (US)-guided core biopsy of axillary nodes in patients with operable breast cancer. The ipsilateral axillae of 187 patients with suspected ...

A biopsy involves removal of whole or part of the lymph node to look under the microscope for signs of infection, or cancer. Lymph nodes are filters located at intervals between the lymph channels.

A 69-year-old Caucasian male who is regularly followed for idiopathic hyper-eosinophilic syndrome presents for a routine checkup. Clinical examination identifies a hard, irregular, left, inguinal ...

While the techniques of using either blue dye or radioactive colloid alone result in high identification rates, a number of authors subsequently investigated the benefit of using a combination ...

Phase I Study of Concurrent Weekly Docetaxel and Repeated Samarium-153 Lexidronam in Patients With Castration-Resistant Metastatic Prostate Cancer Sentinel node biopsy is used to evaluate the nodal ...