US researchers are trying to figure out whether laser-induced ultrasound could help locate melanoma in the lymph nodes. Knowing the stage of a patient's melanoma is important when choosing the ...

To check the lymph nodes, you have an ultrasound. Ultrasound scans use high frequency sound waves to create a picture of a part of the body. If doctors find any abnormal areas, they can use the ...

as well as clinical lymph node diagnosis by intraoperative palpation and preoperative imaging by either computed tomography scan or ultrasound. Pelvic and para-aortic lymphadenectomy was recommended ...

Patients with pure seminoma and no evidence of lymph node involvement or distant metastases received 26 Gy prophylactic limited para-aortic radiotherapy. Disease-free survival at 5 years was the ...

Publication: Zhou X, Li Y. Diagnostic utility of endobronchial ultrasound elastography for detecting benign and malignant lymph nodes: a retrospective study. J Thorac Dis 2025;17(2):614-622.

March 11, 2010 —Systematic removal of pelvic as well as para-aortic lymph nodes may improve survival time vs pelvic lymphadenectomy alone in patients at medium to high risk for endometrial ...

Ultrasound is a useful tool for judging before breast cancer surgery whether chemotherapy eliminated cancer from the underarm lymph nodes, the researchers found. Which breast cancer patients need ...

Fig 1. (A) Illustration of normal lymph nodes on ultrasound. Ultrasound image of a morphologically normal lymph node with uniform thin hypoechoic cortex (white arrows) less than 3 mm in thickness. (B) ...

Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is a standard procedure in the therapeutic management of patients with non-advanced breast cancer. To analyse the utility of ultrasound scan (USS) examination in the ...

This study used an ultrasound ... d feel the lymph glands to see if they had become larger or felt different. If they felt different, this could mean that melanoma had spread to these glands. They ...