Abstract Background Stage III melanoma is a heterogenous disease, and the number of tumor-involved lymph nodes most significantly unfavorable prognostic indicator for relapse outcome. The aim this study to investigate possible effects various clinicopathological factors on course node-positive stage disease. Methods A total 389 cutaneous melanomas were included in analyzed retrospectively. All ...

BACKGROUND : Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is an aggressive cutaneous malignancy with a high risk of lymph node involvement. To the authors' knowledge, few data have been published to date regarding the optimal regional therapy for lymph node-positive patients. This cohort study was performed to analyze the outcomes of patients with lymph node-positive MCC treated with lymph node irradiation as d...

detection of bovine leukemia virus antigens can induces humoral immunity in cow were evaluated. fifteen lymph node from infected cows that had positive results in agid and elisa tests for blv and have clinical signs of lymphosarcoma, in addition five lymph node from apparently healthy cows that had negative results in serological tests. after preparation of extract of lymph nodes, all of the sa...