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 ...

Barcelona, Spain: Using an ultrasound-guided fine needle to biopsy lymph nodes could spare thousands of melanoma patients every year worldwide from having to undergo unnecessary and sometimes ...

Biopsies are done to confirm a cancer diagnosis. There are several different types of biopsies. An excisional biopsy removes an entire suspected tumor as well as some of the surrounding skin. It’s ...

The SenSzi (GBG80) Trial 1 has assessed the contribution of information derived from lymphoscintigraphy in improving the performance of the sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy procedure in cN0 breast ...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the occurrence of lymphatic drainage to non-axillary sentinel nodes and to determine the implications of this phenomenon. A total of 549 breast cancer ...

SCINCE its introduction by Daniels 1 in 1949 the technic of prescalene-lymph-node biopsy has gained favor as a means of studying intrathoracic disease. The simplicity of the method has permitted its ...