You might have surgery to remove lymph nodes in your tummy (abdomen). These are called the retroperitoneal lymph nodes. This operation is called a retroperitoneal lymph node dissection. This is a ...

We examined 262 lymph nodes in 45 retroperitoneal lymph node dissection specimens from germ cell tumor patients. Specimens were categorized as postchemotherapy and untreated retroperitoneal lymph ...

Checking mediastinal lymph nodes is essential to the staging of lung cancer and some lymphomas. Retroperitoneal lymph nodes are situated at the back of the abdomen behind the tissues that cover ...

Paracaval nodes included the nodal packet to the right of the inferior ... CS, clinical stage; CT, computed tomography; RPLND, retroperitoneal lymph node dissection; STM, serum tumor markers. The ...

Carducci, MD, FACP, FASCO. SEMS enrolled adult patients with pure testicular seminoma after radical orchiectomy with isolated retroperitoneal lymphadenopathy 1-3 cm in greatest dimension. No more than ...

An abdominal retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy is performed in the case of bulky suspicious lymph nodes. Although lymphatic spread is an important prognostic factor, the therapeutic role of ...

An extended template for lymphadenectomy includes the presacral and common iliac lymph nodes up to the aortic bifurcation. Removal of the retroperitoneal lymph node proximal to the aortic ...

Being Danvers State Hospital Contributions, No. XVIII, 1912. Papers I-XVII formed the Charles Whitney Page Series, 1910. The present paper is a sequel to Paper VIII of that series. The paper was ...

But no patients in the biopsy-only group had a recurrence in the retroperitoneal lymph nodes compared with 9 patients in the pelvic lymphadenectomy group. The 3-year disease-free survival (primary ...

The addition of retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy (removal of the lymph nodes at the back of the abdomen) to cytoreductive surgery (removal of cancer from the abdomen) during primary surgery or after ...

Lymph nodes are small (about 1-2 centimeters around or the size of a couple of AAA batteries side by side) oval or kidney-shaped structures that are a part of your immune system. They're part of ...