Sentences with phrase «local lymph nodes»

These tests can include a biopsy of local lymph nodes, bloodwork, and a urinalysis.

Dogs with no involvement of local lymph nodeshad a 234 day survival time compared to 70 days for dogs with local lymph node involvement.

Ultrasound is beneficial here in assessing local lymph nodes and abdominal spread from a malignant mammary tumor.

A good general physical exam is needed to find the location, size, and character of all the mammary masses and assess local lymph node enlargement.

Staging describes if there is bone invasion, local lymph node involvement, or distant metastasis and is evaluated through lymph node aspirates / biopsy and thoracic (chest) radiography.

Viruses that escape this checkpoint drain through lymph vessels to local lymph nodes, where it was assumed macrophages finished the job of the innate immune system before specialized adaptive immunity kicked in.

Researchers led by Christopher C. Norbury, professor of microbiology and immunology, recently found that some viruses get past the local lymph node, enter the blood, and are fought off at a third checkpoint: organs that filter the blood.

«If you have a deficit in immunity in those organs, it's actually much worse than if you have a deficit in the local lymph node,» Norbury said.

The regular process of antigen specific CD4 + T cell induction requires antigen capture and processing by DC (or other amenable cells), followed by a process of maturation and trafficking to local lymph nodes 121, 122, 123, 124.

Therefore, the purpose of this study was to compare lymph node palpation to the appearance of the local lymph nodes on CT scan and a combined PET / CT scan to histopathologic results to determine which method may be the most reliable for identification of metastatic (tumor filled) lymph nodes.

They metastasize to the local lymph nodes but rarely spread further.

There may be pain and swelling of the local lymph nodes.

Only 5 - 10 % of tumors arising in the gums (gingiva) metastasize (spread), but cancers in the tongue often metastasize to local lymph nodes.

* A complete physical exam, including a rectal exam, to palpate the urethra, bladder, and local lymph nodes

Tonsillar squamous cell carcinomas almost invariably metastasize to local lymph nodes and two - thirds show distant metastasis, often to the lungs, although they can spread to many different organs, including the bones.

These tumors tend to be more malignant than those in skin and recur locally and spread to the local lymph nodes («glands»).

The most common locations of spread (metastasis) are local lymph nodes, liver, and spleen.

Then they migrate to the local lymph nodes where they present the antigens to other immune system cells (T lymphocytes) to stimulate them into a variety of activities to protect the body (immunity).

The local lymph nodes may swell.

Malignant tumors may spread to the local lymph nodes and occasionally the lung but this is rare.

Stage 2 and Stage 3 show progressively greater signs of invasion, perhaps to local lymph nodes, demonstrating dirty margins, or presenting as multiple tumors.

The disseminated disease occurs when tumor cells spread beyond the local lymph nodes to the lung, liver, spleen, gastrointestinal system, eyes, central nervous system, skin, muscles, bone and / or the bone marrow.

Tumors spread from the mammary glands to local lymph nodes and then on to the chest, brain, bone, and even spleen.

Aspiration of a local lymph node can also be helpful to detect evidence of any spread of a tumor.

However, although they may spread (metastasize), this occurs late in the disease and often they spread only to the local lymph nodes (glands).

Evidence of spread to the lymphatic system (such as the presence of tumor cells in a local lymph node or visible tumor cells with in lymphatic vessels on the biopsy) carries a worse prognosis.

The coronavirus replicates itself inside the small intestine and is limited to the upper two - thirds of the small intestine and local lymph nodes.

Mast cell tumors originate in the skin, then migrate to the local lymph node.

The local lymph node should also be removed in cats, if possible, to assess for evidence of spread of the cancer.