Sentence examples for lymph node field from inspiring English sources

For instance, intraoperative palpation of the lymph node field was introduced to identify unstained, nonradioactive nodes that are suspicious because of their consistency or size.

1 Within 3 years of the publication describing the procedure, the accuracy of SLN biopsy was confirmed in two further studies in which the SLN status was found to accurately reflect the status of the entire lymph node field.

Beginning in 2003, the guidelines recommended use of chest CT for stage III breast cancer and also indicated that CT should be used for treatment planning when radiation therapy was to be delivered to the mammary lymph node field[ 31 33].

In melanoma, this question is more pressing than in breast cancer because the sentinel node procedure is an additional operation, compared with the preexisting situation in which clinically normal lymph node fields were generally observed.

Clinically detectable nodal disease and the absence of visceral metastases was radiographically confirmed by either ultrasound of the lymph node fields and/or the liver, chest x-ray, cerebral magnetic resonance imaging, or computed tomographic scan of the thorax and abdomen.

A contrast between left and right sided breast cancer will tend to produce conservative estimates of risk because radiotherapy to the right breast, especially methods involving internal mammary lymph node (IMN) fields, also entails some cardiac dose.

PrPd was detected immunohistochemically in the inguinal lymph nodes of the BSE-infected sheep and scrapie field case 134/11 but not in the lymph node of scrapie field case 127/11 or any mammary gland.

Imaging targeted areas intraoperatively during SLN mapping procedures requires a swift imaging process that is able to detect any potential lymph node within the field of view.

Patients with Siewert type I or II junctional cancers were treated by right thoraco-abdominal oesophago-gastrectomy with two field lymph node dissection.

Radiation fields later included only the regional or the involved fields; adjacent lymph node areas to the involved node/nodes were irradiated and field borders were determined by anatomical landmarks, often skeletal structure that could easily be identified by fluoroscopy technique used to plan the treatment.

12 Next to these studies, one conference abstract has been published in 2008 on a small prospective study in which patients undergoing oesophagectomy with three-field lymph node dissection started an oral liquid diet on day 2 postoperative.