Defined as an ulceration in a lower extremity caused by venous hypertension, ulcers are common condition which known to affect approximately 1% of the population. They cause substantial socioeconomic burden and significant impact on patients’ quality life. Although number diagnostic procedures applicable diagnosis ulcers, color-flow duplex ultrasound remains gold standard. For therapeutic optio...

BACKGROUND Lymphatic drainage from skin on the head and neck is complex. We sought to provide improved visualization and analysis of the patterns of head and neck skin lymphatic drainage using aggregated lymphoscintigraphy data. METHODS Lymphoscintigraphy data from 929 patients with cutaneous melanoma on the head and neck collected at the Sydney Melanoma Unit have been mapped onto a 3-dimensi...

A physiotherapist at Monash Medical Centre wanted to know the most effective physiotherapy treatments for lymphoedema following treatment for breast cancer. Search question People undergoing physiotherapy for lymphoedema formed the patient group of interest. Clinical outcomes were reduction or prevention of lymphoedema. A randomised controlled trial comparing physiotherapy treatment to no treat...

An essential prerequisite for a successful sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) procedure is an accurate map of the pattern of lymphatic drainage from the primary tumor site in each patient. In melanoma patients, mapping requires high-quality lymphoscintigraphy, which can identify the actual lymphatic collecting vessels as they drain into the sentinel lymph nodes. Small-particle radiocolloids are ...

background: contralateral axillary metastasis (cam) is a rare entity in patients with breast cancer which can occur during the primary breast cancer or its follow-up. different treatment modalities include surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy, but there is no agreement on them. in our review, we found 12 series with available data, 82 patients with synchronous or metachronous contralateral a...

we report a young male with an initial excisional biopsy report of melanoma of the lower back, referred to our hospital for complete excision and sentinel lymph node (sln) biopsy.  four peritumoral intradermal tc-99m phytate injection was performed and slns were detected in both axillary and right inguinal regions. on the biopsy only the right axillary sln was metastatic leading to right axilla...