His chemotherapy treatment was delayed as doctors attempted to figure out the cause of his pain, an Illinois attorney says.

A Chicago-area hospital is being sued by a former patient after he claimed that the surgeon who operated on him left a surgical sponge in his neck.

A surgeon performing a second procedure found and removed a surgical sponge from the initial surgery, according to the court ...

You might have surgery to remove lymph nodes in your tummy (abdomen). These are called the retroperitoneal lymph nodes. This operation is called a retroperitoneal lymph node dissection. This is a ...

This surgery is also called a simple mastectomy. Modified radical mastectomy This surgery combines a total mastectomy with the removal of axillary (underarm) lymph nodes. You’ll need this surgery if ...

Surgery for tumors in a sublingual gland involves removal (excision) of the entire gland ... Salivary gland cancers often spread to the lymph nodes in the neck first before they spread anywhere else.

Then surgery was performed. During the surgery, we only removed the marked lymph node, the MARI node, and examined it for any ...

Then, surgery was performed. During the surgery, we only removed the marked lymph node, the MARI node, and examined it for ...