Lung cancer often spreads to the lymph nodes before spreading to other parts of the body. Which groups of lymph nodes are involved, and where these are in relation to the primary (original ...

Most of the time, the enlargement of supraclavicular lymph nodes is a sign of a serious disease such as lung cancer or lymphoma. Mediastinal lymph nodes reside in the center of the chest cavity ...

A 61-year-old patient with no relevant medical or family history presented with a 2 month history of refractory dry cough that led to the diagnosis of typical carcinoid tumor of the lung ...

Accurate staging for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC ... In patients without distant metastasis, the presence of mediastinal lymph nodes involvement generally precludes curative resection ...

The scalene fat pad is incised, and if lymph nodes are discovered ... in the right-upper-lung field. The pneumomediastinogram (B) shows that the apical shadow is mediastinal because it is outlined ...