Your lymph nodes, along with your spleen, tonsils, and adenoids, help you fight off illness and infections. Learn more about your lymph nodes’ part in this first line of defense.

There are two layers of inguinal lymph nodes located below the inguinal ligament, which runs from the ilium's anterior superior iliac spine (the front-most portion of the ilium, the largest pelvic ...

Background: Radical inguinal lymph node dissection (rILND) is the standard procedure for malignant melanoma (MM) patients with clinically positive inguinal lymph nodes (ILNs), but its precise ...

383 Background: Per the NCCN guidelines, inguinal lymph node dissection (ILND) is recommended for patients with intermediate (T1b) or high (Any T2 or Grade 3) risk disease even in the absence of ...

Evidence-based recommendations on lymphovenous anastomosis during axillary or inguinal node dissection for preventing secondary lymphoedema in adults. This involves diverting some of the lymphatic ...

Patients with high-risk penile cancer tumours and without palpable lymphadenopathy benefit from inguinal lymph node dissection, as many of these men harbour occult metastasis Modified and ...

This was published 14 years ago Anatomy of a dissection debate Medical students are no longer required to dissect cadavers but some choose to do it anyway, writes Julie Robotham.