Abstract Background Metastatic involvement of non-regional supraclavicular or superior mediastinal lymph nodes in distal oesophageal cancer is rare, but has important implications for prognosis and management. The management which appear indeterminate on CT FDG PET-CT (subcentimetre those with preserved normal morphology, increased avidity) can present a diagnostic dilemma. This study investiga...

peripheral lymph nodes, located deep in the subcutaneous tissue, clean antigens from the extracellular fluid. generally, a normal sized lymph node is less than one cm in diameter. peripheral lymphadenopathy (lap) is frequently due to a local or systemic, benign, self-limited, infectious disease. however, it could be a manifestation of underlying malignancy. seventy-five percent of all laps are ...

INTRODUCTION: In East Africa, the estimated incidence of breast cancer is second only to cervical cancer. Supraclavicular irradiation post-modified mastectomy crucial management, as it improves local control and overall survival. However, this associated with adverse effects, including hypothyroidism (HT), which usually under-reported. This study aim was evaluate radiation-induced thyroid gland...

We are reporting on a case of a 41-year-old woman who presented with metastatic gastroesophageal junction cancer and who achieved prolonged survival with a multimodal treatment approach. After initially experiencing robust response to chemotherapy, she was treated for distant recurrence with palliative radiation to the gastrohepatic and supraclavicular lymph nodes and subsequently, given her un...

HISTORY This was the third UCLA hospital admission for this 66-year-old female. Twenty-seven years ago the patient had breast cancer and underwent a left radical mastectomy without chemotherapy, and/or totalbody bone scanning. She then had recurrence in the left supraclavicular fossa involving the lymph nodes and the brachial plexus. She was treated with telecobalt beam over a single anterior d...

This brief review defines the various surgical procedures for breast cancer, which are under dispute by laymen and some surgeons, because of lack of controlled comparative studies and differences in classification of stages of breast cancer. The simplest procedure, tylectomy or lumpectomy, consists of resection of the local lesion only. Simple mastectomy refers to removal of the involved mamm...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among females in India, as per urban cancer registries. The Annual Age Adjusted Rate (AAR) varies from 30 per 100,000 in Mumbai to 33.4 per 100,000 in Delhi (Manoharan et al., 2010). LABC refers to large breast tumors (>5 cm) associated with either skin/ chest wall involvement or with fixed axillary lymph nodes or spread to ipsilateral internal mammary or...

The clinical, light microscopic, ultrastructural, immunocytochemical and cytogenetic features of a case of monocytoid B cell lymphoma were investigated. The tumour initially affected the cervical and supraclavicular nodes, but 33 months later affected the left parotid salivary gland. The patient had subclinical Sjögren's syndrome. The neoplastic cells showed characteristic morphological feature...

In the Dissection Team of the Second Chair of Anatomy at the School of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, during the routine dissection of 78 cadavers (corresponding to 156 supraclavicular fossae),10% formalin fixed, we found the supraclavicularis proprius muscle over the lower part of the left supraclavicular fossa in an adult Caucasian male cadaver. We described this rare ...

Classical lymphadenopathies, such as Virchow's node (left supraclavicular lymph node metastasis) and Irish node (left axillary lymph node metastasis), are important findings that may indicate the presence of gastric cancer and other gastrointestinal malignancies.