Christopher M. Dobson, MBBS, from the Royal Preston Hospital in the United Kingdom, and colleagues developed an approach to performing palpation of lymph-node basins in ticklish patients with skin ...

Lymph node sampling can be an important factor in staging Wilms tumor, ... from the lymph node basins where we know the kidney should drain,” Cost says.

Background: While management of the nodal basin for melanoma has largely moved to observation for microscopic sentinel lymph node (SLN) metastasis, complete lymph node dissection (CLND) remains the ...

A retrospective analysis published by Foster et al. of 327 clinically node-negative patients, showed that postoperative complications were 2.4-fold higher when the lymph node basin was managed in ...

They're clearing the basin, and whether you're clearing the basin with a 2-cm lymph node or a 4-cm lymph node, it's the same operation. Patel: You mentioned that the SWOG data is believable, but ...

PURPOSE: To prospectively compare positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of regional lymph node basins to sentinel node biopsy (SNB) in patients with American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) ...

Significantly, despite the fact that BWH stage T2b tumors were only 5% of the cohort analyzed, they represented 70% of nodal metastases and 83% of deaths from cSCC. 1 Moreover, sentinel lymph node ...

The researchers found that SUVmax of involved lymph nodes, number of involved lymph node basins and C-reactive protein levels assessed by the PET scan were significantly higher in nonresponders ...