Lymph Node Dissection (limf Node Dis-EK-shun) at Medical Drugs Glossary

What is Lymph Node Dissection (limf Node Dis-EK-shun)? A surgical procedure in which the lymph nodes are removed and examined to see whether they contain cancer. For a regional lymph node dissection, some of the lymph nodes in the tumor area are removed; for a radical lymph node dissection, most or all of the

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