A woman was sent to me for ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy of a thyroid nodule. As is my usual practice prior to the biopsy, I performed detailed ultrasound evaluation for cervical ...

Research into whether ultrasounds to detect breast cancer in underarm lymph nodes are less effective in obese women has produced a surprising finding. Fat didn’t obscure the images — and ultrasounds ...

A lymph node biopsy is when a doctor checks and removes a small piece of tissue or sample of cells from one of your lymph nodes. The doctor sends this to the laboratory and a specialist doctor called ...

Which breast cancer patients need to have underarm lymph nodes removed? Mayo Clinic-led research is narrowing it down. A new study finds that not all women with lymph node-positive breast cancer ...

A 48-year-old woman, status post-total thyroidectomy followed by radioactive iodine ablation for locally metastatic papillary thyroid cancer, was sent to me by one of the other endocrinologists in my ...

Intermediate and Longer-Term Outcomes From a Prospective Active-Surveillance Program for Favorable-Risk Prostate Cancer Postchemotherapy AUS images were reviewed for 611 patients. One hundred thirty ...

Evidence-Based Approach to the Introduction of Positron Emission Tomography in Ontario, Canada The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate whether preoperative US of SLNs could be used as a ...

For patients diagnosed with breast cancer, determining whether cancer cells have spread to the axillary lymph nodes of the armpit is important for guiding treatment decisions. It has been debated ...

US researchers are trying to figure out whether laser-induced ultrasound could help locate melanoma in the lymph nodes. Knowing the stage of a patient's melanoma is important when choosing the best ...

Which breast cancer patients need to have underarm lymph nodes removed? New research is narrowing it down: a study finds that not all women with lymph node-positive breast cancer treated with ...