Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 72-year-old woman in good health, generally. Three months ago, I woke one morning with a very sore neck that I attributed to "sleeping wrong." As I massaged it, I found a firm ...

At this point in the pandemic, you’re fairly familiar with the laundry list of possible COVID-19 symptoms, including a fever, chills, body aches, a dry cough, shortness of breath, and a loss of taste ...

Usually, swollen chest lymph nodes are too deep in the chest for a person to feel them. Any swollen lymph nodes in the chest appear on imaging scans. Swelling can indicate an underlying condition.

There are several reasons you might have a moveable lump in the neck. Swollen lymph nodes are often the reason. But this lump can also be a serious condition, so visiting a doctor is important. A lump ...

Neck ultrasonography is widely used for follow-up of patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC). However, fine-needle aspiration biopsy is frequently required to clarify uncertain findings.

A variety of factors go in to the staging of a head and neck cancer diagnosis, however, the number of malignant lymph nodes may very well be the key to prognosis and treatment moving forward in this ...

Dye is injected into the breast, one to four of the nodes is identified with a probe and removed to see if cancer cells are present. Lymph nodes are small organs, typically ranging from the size of a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An 8-year-old girl was seen for right-sided neck pain and an underlying lymph node measuring 2.5 cm with ...

BOSTON - Swollen lymph nodes can be a normal and expected side effect after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, doctors say — and many are working to spread the word in an effort to ease patients’ fears ...