Armpit in Medical News

Study links arm/hand swelling to number of lymph nodes removed during breast cancer surgery

... written 20-30 years ago, when more extensive surgeries to the breast and armpit (axilla) were performed and use of radiation therapy to the armpit was more common. The researchers conducted three phone surveys between ...

Washington, DC Plastic Surgeon Pioneers New Minimal-Scarring Technique

... better contours and virtually invisible scars that are hidden inside the armpit – and the world of plastic surgery is taking notice. ... extra fat and skin hanging from the upper arms. By making incisions in the armpit instead of the traditional method of a long incision down the arm, Dr. ...

TECNIMED Picks Up Frost & Sullivan Award for its Innovative THERMOFOCUS

... it is difficult to measure the temperature on the forehead," states Munshi. "The temperature, in that case, can be measured on the navel or in the armpit or on the neck under the auricle". THERMOFOCUS is also an economical substitute for the commonly used ear thermometers in hospitals. In contrast ...

Current Trends in Arm Lift Surgery

... surgeon in Los Angeles, CA. Traditional Brachioplasty operations to remove excess fat and skin require the surgeon to make an incision from the armpit to the elbow, leaving patients with a long, undesirable scar. Scar size will be even greater in patients who have experienced massive weight loss. ...

Lymphatic vessel and lymph node function are restored with growth factor treatment

... cells than control transplants. It has been estimated that approximately 20-30% of patients that have undergone irradiation or surgery of the armpit in response to lymph node metastases develop lymphedema later on. Damage to the large collecting lymphatic vessels, which resemble smaller veins, ...

Surgeon Develops Procedure to Prevent Arm Swelling in Breast Cancer Patients

... surgery to remove the lymph nodes and most of the fat and tissue in the armpit often resulted in complications, including lymphedema.' Five percent to 50 ... node, is capable of predicting if the cancer has spread to the remaining armpit lymph nodes, known as axillary lymph nodes. This is a less invasive ...

Post-Operative Pain in Breast Cancer Surgery

... sharp pain is usually experienced, by nearly 50% of all women undergoing a lumpectomy or mastectomy, after weeks or months, near the breast, next to armpit and in the upper arm on the same side. In a study published in the September 2006 Journal of Pain, lead author Robert H. Dworkin, Ph.D., a ...

Crisis Of Bubonic Plague In New Mexico

... wound and keep pet animals with an effective flea control product. Signs may include from fever; painful swollen lymph nodes in the groin, armpit or neck, chills, headache, vomiting and to diarrhea for bubonic plague. No human cases were found in 2004 after a death in 1994. Keeping home ...

98.6 degrees no longer the benchmark for normal temperature

... a 19th-century German physician gave us the magic figure of 98.6 degrees. This was done by him after collecting and analysing over a million armpit temperatures for 25,000 patients.// This has been corrected by Harvard researchers and appears in the April issue of the Harvard Health Letter. ...

Comparing Breast surgery techniques

... of Pittsburgh now produce new evidence that shows radical mastectomy is rarely necessary. They studied 1005 women who had no sign of cancer in the armpit lymph nodes. Some had radical mastectomy, some had simple mastectomy with radiation or - if the nodes became positive - removal of the nodes. They ...

Armpit odour enhances mood

... The armpit smells of old ladies are the latest mood-enhancing substances to be uncovered by scientists - but they warn that those of young men may have the ...