A woman was sent to me for ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy of a thyroid nodule. As is my usual practice prior to the biopsy, I performed detailed ultrasound evaluation for cervical ...

A new imaging dye, already approved for lymph node mapping in breast cancer and melanoma, is useful in patients with head and neck cancer, according to a new study. When used in conjunction with ...

A lymph node biopsy is when a doctor checks and removes a small piece of tissue or sample of cells from one of your lymph nodes. The doctor sends this to the laboratory and a specialist doctor called ...

Navidea Biopharmaceuticals announced data from its Phase 3 clinical study investigating 99m-Tc-Tilmanocept (Lymphoseek) in Sentinel Lymph Node (SLN) mapping in patients with head and neck squamous ...

Ultrasound outperformed baseline clinical assessment for detection of lymph node metastasis in patients with high-risk cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the head and neck, a retrospective ...

Jan. 24, 2003 — Sentinel lymph node mapping with biopsy (SLNB) is reliable in head and neck melanoma, according to results of a retrospective cohort study reported in the January issue of the Archives ...

Intermediate and Longer-Term Outcomes From a Prospective Active-Surveillance Program for Favorable-Risk Prostate Cancer Postchemotherapy AUS images were reviewed for 611 patients. One hundred thirty ...

Which breast cancer patients need to have underarm lymph nodes removed? New research is narrowing it down: a study finds that not all women with lymph node-positive breast cancer treated with ...

Emma Rossi, MD, in the UNC Department of Obstetric and Gynecology's Division of Gynecologic Oncology, has published a study in Lancet Oncology online that identifies sentinel-lymph-node mapping as a ...

For patients diagnosed with breast cancer, determining whether cancer cells have spread to the axillary lymph nodes of the armpit is important for guiding treatment decisions. It has been debated ...