Lymph Node Excision

"Lymph Node Excision" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Surgical excision of one or more lymph nodes. Its most common use is in cancer surgery. (From Dorland, 28th ed, p966)

Descriptor ID	D008197
MeSH Number(s)	E04.446
Concept/Terms	Lymph Node Excision Lymph Node Excision Excision, Lymph Node Excisions, Lymph Node Lymph Node Excisions Lymphadenectomy Lymphadenectomies Lymph Node Dissection Lymph Node Dissection Dissection, Lymph Node Dissections, Lymph Node Lymph Node Dissections Node Dissection, Lymph Node Dissections, Lymph

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Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment [E]
Surgical Procedures, Operative [E04]
Lymph Node Excision [E04.446]

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Bar chart showing 28 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2014

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	0	1	1
1997	1	0	1
2002	1	1	2
2004	1	1	2
2005	1	2	3
2006	0	1	1
2007	0	1	1
2009	1	0	1
2010	0	1	1
2011	0	1	1
2013	0	1	1
2014	3	2	5
2015	1	0	1
2017	1	0	1
2018	0	1	1
2019	1	0	1
2020	0	1	1
2023	0	2	2
2025	1	0	1

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Stutz K, Mason H, Niakan S, Coulter AP, Casaubon J, Friedrich AU. The impact of surgical technique on the number of sentinel lymph nodes removed and its effect on complication rates. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2025 Apr; 210(3):605-613.

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Switalla KM, Boughey JC, Dimitroff K, Yau C, Ladores V, Yu H, Tchou J, Golshan M, Ahrendt G, Postlewait LM, Piltin M, Reyna CR, Matsen CB, Tuttle TM, Wallace AM, Arciero CA, Lee MC, Tseng J, Son J, Rao R, Sauder C, Naik A, Howard-McNatt M, Lancaster R, Norwood P, Esserman LJ, Mukhtar RA. Clipping the Positive Lymph Node in Patients with Clinically Node Positive Breast Cancer Treated with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: Impact on Axillary Surgery in the ISPY-2 Clinical Trial. Ann Surg Oncol. 2024 Oct; 31(11):7249-7259.

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Webber AA, Gupta P, Marcello PW, Stain SC, Abelson JS. Lymph node retrieval colon cancer: Are we making the grade? Am J Surg. 2023 10; 226(4):477-484.

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Chung SH, de Geus SWL, Shewmaker G, Romatoski KS, Drake FT, Ko NY, Merrill AL, Hirsch AE, Tseng JF, Sachs TE, Cassidy MR. Axillary Lymph Node Dissection is Associated with Improved Survival Among Men with Invasive Breast Cancer and Sentinel Node Metastasis. Ann Surg Oncol. 2023 Sep; 30(9):5610-5618.

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Ersoy E, Elsayad M, Pandiri M, Knee A, Cao QJ, Crisi GM. Intraoperative Lymph Node Assessment (Touch Preparation Only) for Metastatic Breast Carcinoma in Neoadjuvant and Non-neoadjuvant Settings. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2023 02 01; 147(2):149-158.

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Papageorge MV, de Geus SWL, Woods AP, Ng SC, Drake FT, Merrill A, Cassidy MR, McAneny D, Tseng JF, Sachs TE. Lymphadenectomy in gallbladder adenocarcinoma: Are we doing enough? Am J Surg. 2022 07; 224(1 Pt B):423-428.

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de Geus SWL, Hirji S, Hachey KJ, Sachs TE, Suzuki K, Ng SC, Swanson S, Litle VR, D'Amico T, Tseng JF. Lymphadenectomy and Survival After Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation for Esophageal Adenocarcinoma: Is More Better? J Gastrointest Surg. 2020 11; 24(11):2447-2455.

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Strong VE, Russo AE, Nakauchi M, Schattner M, Selby LV, Herrera G, Tang L, Gonen M. Robotic Gastrectomy for Gastric Adenocarcinoma in the USA: Insights and Oncologic Outcomes in 220 Patients. Ann Surg Oncol. 2021 Feb; 28(2):742-750.

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Farlow JL, Birkeland AC, Rosko AJ, VanKoevering K, Haring CT, Smith JD, Brenner JC, Shuman AG, Chinn SB, Stucken CL, Malloy KM, Moyer JS, Casper KA, McLean SA, Prince MEP, Bradford CR, Wolf GT, Chepeha DB, Spector ME. Elective Paratracheal Lymph Node Dissection in Salvage Laryngectomy. Ann Surg Oncol. 2019 Aug; 26(8):2542-2548.

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Russo AE, Strong VE. Gastric Cancer Etiology and Management in Asia and the West. Annu Rev Med. 2019 01 27; 70:353-367.

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