Examining more carefully the lymph nodes to which colorectal cancer is most likely to have spread may improve the accuracy of colon cancer staging and spare some patients the cost and toxicity of ...

July 17, 2012 — A thorough lymph node examination can enhance the detection of unexpected metastatic disease in patients with nonsmall-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but current practices are ...

Examination of ticklish patients may be difficult. Strategies for examining ticklish patients have been reported in the fields of pediatric neurology (i.e., using the Chaddock maneuver in ...

Digital not safe enough. One of the driving forces behind the study is Patrycja Woldan-Gradalska, a Ph.D. student at Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg and a Resident Physician at ...

Mediastinal lymph node (MLN) metastasis connotes a poor prognosis. Yet, some NSCLC resections in the US do not include MLN examination. Methods: We analyzed SEER data from 1998 to 2002 to quantify the ...

Unlike examination of mediastinal lymph nodes (LNs), which depends on surgical practice, accurate examination of intrapulmonary (N1) nodes depends primarily on pathology practice. We investigated the ...

Examining a specific number of lymph nodes after colon cancer surgery, a measurement that has been recommended as a quality indicator for hospitals, is not associated with length of patient ...

An ultrasound scan shows the size and shape of a lymph node when it is not clear in a physical examination. For example, ultrasound scans may help identify cancerous growths on lymph nodes.

It was a routine lymph node examination, he would maintain. When the examination was over, Weaver was confused. She felt what had just happened was wrong, but she still needed medical help.

Lymph node examination process. Lymph nodes larger than 4 mm were sliced into four pieces (A), and lymph nodes sized 4 mm or less were cut into two pieces (B).

After a breast cancer operation, the removed tumour is always examined, as its subtype can provide an indication of how aggressive the disease is. The patient's lymph nodes are not analysed in the ...