To describe a case of retroperitoneal lymphocele as an extremely rare complication after lumbar spine fracture. A 71-year-old man presented with severe intractable low back pain caused by a huge ...

The lymphatic system is a network of vessels, nodes, and ducts that pass through almost all bodily tissues. It allows the circulation of a fluid called lymph through the body in a similar way to blood ...

• Lymph nodes: Small, bean-shaped structures that filter lymph and store white blood cells that help fight infection and disease. Lymph nodes are found along a network of lymph vessels throughout the ...

IN the 1908 Christian Herter Lectures at Bellevue Hospital, Starling 1 emphasized the important influence of changes in hepatic interstitial-fluid formation on flow and composition of thoracic-duct ...