Transplanted Lymph Nodes Cure Swelling
Lymphedema is swelling in a body area where lymph nodes are blocked or absent from surgery or disease. Dr. Tim Rosio, fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology and the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, notes that a new method transplants your own nodes from one body area to another body area. Following melanoma or breast cancer surgery, for example, nodes may be transplanted from your groin to your armpit, which offers the hope to relieve the chronic swelling. This method was just recently reported in the New York Times and the Journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
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