You might have surgery to remove lymph nodes in your tummy (abdomen). These are called the retroperitoneal lymph nodes. This operation is called a retroperitoneal lymph node dissection. This is a ...

If your doctor can feel swollen lymph nodes near the melanoma, you usually have an ultrasound scan and biopsy. This is different to a sentinel lymph node biopsy. If the biopsy shows the lymph nodes ...

At MSK, breast cancer surgery and breast reconstruction often are done during the same procedure. During surgery, your doctor may also do a lymph node biopsy. This procedure lets them take a sample of ...

N1 Single lymph node metastasis, 2 cm or less in greatest dimension N1 Single regional lymph node metastasis in the true pelvis (hypogastric, obturator, external iliac or presacral lymph node ...

A new surgical treatment for Alzheimer’s disease is showing promise in a clinical trial under way in Chinese hospitals. One doctor taking part in the trial at a hospital in Changsha, Hunan ...

The investigators could not specifically assess the effects of lymph node dissection ... without surgery is more appropriate treatment for patients with nonresectable node-positive disease.

Chronic health conditions like an autoimmune disorder or cancer are also treatable with medications or surgery. If your lymph ...

Risk of residual tumor following removal of a malignant colorectal polyp with high-risk features. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2025 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. This abstract ...