… lymph nodes are a common site of metastases for malignant tumors that originate at primary
… aerodigestive tract as well as metastases from salivary gland, thyroid, and skin cancers. …

… , metastasis to cervical lymph nodes from an occult primary … a primary tumor initially undetected
on physical examination is revealed in >50% of patients and the site of the index primary …

… rates of 8–34% depending on the level of the rectal primary tumor.19 , 20 Taken collectively,
this … features of primary colorectal cancer correlating with lymph node spread were identified …

… The purpose of the analysis was to examine the contribution of positive lymph nodes to …
number of positive axillary lymph nodes (zero v one to three v four or more), primary tumor size (< …

… of metastasis on US images of clinically negative lymph nodes, axillary lymph node metastasis
is detected with sentinel lymph node … are associated with lymph node metastasis. The …

… of metastasis at lymph nodes close to the site of the primary … Because it can be difficult to
detect lymph node metastases … can detect lymph node metastases for primary head and neck …

… to discriminate between metastatic and non-metastatic LNs in patients with primary rectal …
ADC of the metastatic LNs was significantly lower than that of the non-metastatic LNs. Our …

… surgical resection for melanoma metastatic to regional lymph nodes. Among those patients,
… who had regional lymph node metastases of similar stage with a known primary site were …

… primary sites and nodal metastasis are correlated, and expression in metastatic lymph nodes
has a tendency to increase compared with that innonmetastatic lymph nodes. Although the …

… 20% to 30% of node-negative patients will develop distant metastases within 10 years (14). …
of lymph node metastasis, we established a spontaneous lymph node metastasis animal …