Preoperative imaging can help to differentiate benign and malignant strictures, as well as assess resectability of malignant disease including the identification of tumor invasion of adjacent ...

Papillary thyroid carcinoma is the most common differentiated type of cancer that can affect the thyroid. Recent scientific advances and new technologies have allowed numerous developments in the ...

The greater SCF refers to the shallow depression that overlies the supraclavicular triangle, which is formed by the sternocleidomastoid muscle, inferior ... lymph node; CC, cricoid cartilage; D, deep ...

Lower paratracheal (stations 4R and 4L) ├── Aortic nodes (stations 5-6) │ ├── Subaortic (station 5) │ └── Para-aortic (station 6) ├── Inferior mediastinal nodes (stations 7-9) │ ├── Subcarinal ...

In regards to blood flow, deoxygenated blood from the superior and inferior vena cava and the coronary sinus collect in the right atrium. From there, blood flows across the tricuspid valve into the ...

Five patients with a benign EUS-FNA result underwent mediastinoscopy. At mediastinoscopy one patient was found to have a malignant lower paratracheal lymph node and the EUS-FNA diagnosis was recorded ...