What is the color of your lymph node?

Yeela Ben Naftali; Asia Brodsky; Eran D. Bar-Meir

doi:10.1097/GOX.0000000000001990

What is the color of your lymph node?

Yeela Ben Naftali, Asia Brodsky, Eran D. Bar-Meir

Bar-Ilan University - Azrieli Faculty of Medicine

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Abstract

We describe a case of tattoo ink in an axillary lymph node, which was observed during an axillary dissection and mastectomy surgery. It is important to be aware of this phenomenon and correctly identify it at the time of surgery, as a misdiagnosis can have serious consequences.

Original language	English
Article number	e1990
Journal	Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Global Open
Volume	6
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000001990
State	Published - Dec 2018

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