Rarely, swollen lymph nodes at the base of your neck could indicate a type of cancer called lymphoma. If you have lymphoma, lymph nodes in other areas may also swell, though this swelling ...

The occipital lymph nodes are located in the back of the head, near the occipital bone of the skull. Much like other lymph nodes located throughout the body, the occipital lymph nodes play an ...

Doctors call the lymph nodes in the back area of the skull “occipital lymph nodes.” Swelling of these lymph nodes may occur for various reasons, such as infection and skin conditions ...

What to do if you have swollen lymph nodes If you have swollen lymph nodes, especially in your neck, Dr. Lee would not immediately think of COVID-19 as a cause, unless you know of a recent exposure.

More than 98% were located at the level of the skull base (C2). Medial retropharyngeal lymph nodes were less common; they were found in 23 of the children with obstructive sleep apnea (21%) and in ...

In a study published today (July 24) in Nature, researchers show that there is a hot spot of meningeal lymphatic vessels at the base of the rodent skull that is specialized to drain CSF and allow ...