In general, follow-up consisted of chest x-ray ... and retrocaval nodes. Para-aortic nodal packets included nodes to the left of the aorta, preaortic, and retroaortic. All lumbar vessels were ligated ...

AS a marathon runner and someone who’d never smoked, Warren Gray wasn’t worried when he developed what he thought was an ...

OBJECTIVE: Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is a minimally invasive diagnostic test with a high diagnostic yield for suspicious central pulmonary lesions ...

Sarcoidosis occurs most often in the lungs and lymph nodes. But it can occur in almost any organ ... reduce the amount of air the lungs can hold and cause lung stiffness. Chest X-ray. This imaging ...

The mediastinum is a distinct space between the two lungs and contains the heart, great vessels, esophagus, trachea and the thymus and chest lymph nodes ... a chest X-ray confirmed the presence ...

The objective of the present study was to investigate the contribution of chest CTA findings to identifying alternative diagnoses to PTE that would explain the clinical picture of the patient and that ...

ASCO Guidelines provide recommendations with comprehensive review and analyses of the relevant literature for each recommendation, following the guideline development process as outlined in the ASCO ...

Lymphatic drainage massage encourages the drainage of lymph nodes and the movement of lymph ... techniques to help drain lymph fluid from the chest, shoulder, and upper arm. To massage the chest ...

Lymph nodes are small organs that are distributed throughout the body and drain lymph fluid from the tissues. Immune cells reside in lymph nodes and survey the lymph for signs of infection.

In patients without distant metastasis, the presence of mediastinal lymph nodes involvement generally precludes curative resection in most cases. [33] Thus, EUS-FNA provides accurate information ...