A 30-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of painless lymphadenopathy in the left neck. Computed tomography of neck and chest revealed multiple lesions up to 9.5 cm in diameter in the ...

For patients with early-stage cervical cancer, sentinel lymph node biopsy alone is noninferior to lymphadenectomy with respect to disease-free survival, according to a study published online Oct. 15 ...

Angiosarcoma is an uncommon malignancy, which spread out from the endothelial cells of vessels. Scalp angiosarcoma with cervical lymph node metastasis is particularly rare. This article describes a ...

From May 2000 until May 2003, 40 male and 10 female patients with previously untreated squamous cell carcinomas of the upper aerodigestive tract were included in this study. The study was conducted in ...

See a doctor if you have painful, swollen lymph nodes or if they persist for weeks or worsen. You can treat swollen lymph nodes based on their underlying cause, such as antibiotics for bacterial ...

The present study was undertaken to determine the relative importance of the various causative agents in cervical lymphadenitis of children. Thirty-four consecutive cases of cervical lymphadenitis in ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 72-year-old woman in good health, generally. Three months ago, I woke one morning with a very sore neck that I attributed to "sleeping wrong." As I massaged it, I found a firm ...

Results from the PHENIX-I trial support skipping pelvic lymphadenectomy in women with early cervical cancer who have a negative sentinel lymph node biopsy. Omitting pelvic lymphadenectomy in these ...

In this Journal feature, information about a real patient is presented in stages (boldface type) to an expert clinician, who responds to the information by sharing relevant background and reasoning ...