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 ...

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 ...

The primary landing site for right-sided tumors is the interaortocaval region followed by precaval and then preaortic nodes ... Laparoscopic retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND) for ...

Large retroperitoneal lymph nodes demonstrated greater discriminatory accuracy than a high-risk Khorana score for the prediction of risk for chemotherapy-associated venous thromboembolism in ...

Your doctor might also suggest an operation to remove some lymph nodes from the back of your tummy (abdomen). This operation is called a retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND). Removing the ...

The final lymphadenectomy pathology demonstrated that 21 nodes were removed ... variation in retroperitoneal lymphatic anatomy. Approximately 50–90% of the lymph flow in the cisterna chyli ...

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 ...

The 2009 International Federation of Gynecologists and Obstetricians elected to substage patients with positive retroperitoneal lymph nodes as IIIC 1 (pelvic lymph node metastasis only ...

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 ...