Globally, women are roughly twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with thyroid cancer. However, recent research shows that ...

Contrast-enhanced mammography identified three times as many tumors as ultrasound scans. But it is not widely used for ...

Autoimmune destruction of pancreatic β cells results in type 1 diabetes (T1D), with pancreatic immune infiltrate representing a key feature in this process. However, characterization of the ...

It is made up of fine tubes called lymphatic vessels. These vessels connect to groups of small lymph nodes throughout the body. The lymphatic system drains lymph fluid from the tissues of the body ...

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 ...

You’ll need this surgery if the cancer is locally advanced and involves skin, muscle, or many lymph nodes. Skin-sparing mastectomy In this mastectomy, we remove all of the tissue inside of the breast.

Surgery can help confirm a diagnosis. If endometriosis and swollen lymph nodes are present, a surgeon may remove endometrial tissue and the affected lymph nodes. There is little evidence to ...

This precision surgery can prevent complications associated with extensive lymph node dissection and improve patient survival by accurately removing only the cancerous tissue. Professor Hyun Koo ...

Importantly, 'jump-starting' lymph node expansion prior to administering ... While the oversized LNs maintained a normal tissue organization, they displayed altered mechanical features and hosted ...

If your doctor thinks you need a sentinel lymph node biopsy, you have it at the same time as an operation to remove the skin and tissue around where the melanoma was. This operation is called a wide ...

After you've had your biopsy, your doctor sends the lymph node -- or a small sample of it -- to another doctor called a pathologist. They'll put the tissue on a slide and examine it under a ...

The authors used a new tissue imaging technique to identify each cell in the lymph node and to measure its activation and function. This image shows various types of immune cells in the lymph node, ...