Preposition: on

• side: N1 The cancer has spread to lymph nodes on one side of the neck.

Adjective modifier

• enlarged: At post-mortem get enlarged lymph nodes ( mesenteric and abdominal ) and focal necrosis of the liver and spleen.

• swollen: But sometimes, the swollen lymph nodes can block the circulation of tissue fluid.

• hilar: Lungs, hilar lymph nodes, and spleen are removed at autopsy for tuberculosis culture and histology.

• mesenteric: Cells pass to the mesenteric lymph nodes where the immune response is amplified.

• mediastinal: The six benign lesions included three false-positive mediastinal lymph nodes in one patient.

• nearby: Radical Gallbladder Resection If the cancer has spread outside your gallbladder to nearby lymph nodes then your surgeon will do an even bigger operation.

Converse of object

• remove: I had the termination of our baby and had the lump and 40 lymph nodes removed ( four had cancer cells in them ).

• affect: May affect lymph nodes but has definitely spread to other parts of the body.

• have: Thirty-one patients had a sentinel lymph node positive for melanoma metastasis.

Modifies a noun

• metastasis: All patients underwent cystectomy for bladder cancer and had regional lymph node metastases at the time of surgery.

• dissection: We review here several policies for the selection of patients for retroperitoneal lymph node dissection.

• biopsy: This histological slide shows a binucleate cell from a cervical lymph node biopsy.

• involvement: Typical disease was defined as regional lymph node involvement without ocular, cutaneous, or visceral problems.

• enlargement: This paper reports the case of a 32-year-old HIV-positive man who developed generalized lymph node enlargement.

• staging: Endoscopic ultrasound appeared to be reliable for both local tumor and lymph node staging of oesophageal cancer.

Preposition: in

• neck: As well as treating the tumor, radiotherapy will usually be given to the lymph nodes in the neck.

• patient: The six benign lesions included three false-positive mediastinal lymph nodes in one patient.

Noun used with modifier

• sentinel: Thirty-one patients had a sentinel lymph node positive for melanoma metastasis.

• tender: Sometimes there are tender lymph nodes around the ear or the neck.