Group · Lymphoid organs
Axillary nodes
Nodi axillares
- System
- Lymphoid organs
- Regions
- Trunk
- Part of
- Lymph nodes of upper limb
DescriptionUnreviewed
The axillary lymph nodes or armpit lymph nodes are lymph nodes in the human armpit.
Between 20 and 49 in number, they drain lymph vessels from the lateral quadrants of the breast, the superficial lymph vessels from thin walls of the chest and the abdomen above the level of the navel, and the vessels from the upper limb.
They are divided in several groups according to their location in the armpit.
These lymph nodes are clinically significant in breast cancer, and metastases from the breast to the axillary lymph nodes are considered in the staging of the disease.
Continue reading on Wikipedia →
Source: Wikipedia · Text licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 · This text comes from the source data and has not been reviewed by a person yet.
Parts
Names
- Latin
- Nodi axillares
- English
- Axillary nodes
- French
- Lymphonoeuds axillaires
- Spanish
- Nodos axilares
- Portuguese
- Nós axilares