Clinical Update - Navy Medicine

a. Lymph flows slowly thru them. b. Gives time to remove microbes and other injurious particles (soot) .. phagocytosis . c. Sometimes overwhelmed and infection of the node (adenitis) results. d. Cancer cells often break away from malignant tumor and travel to the lymph nodes and they become cancerous-can block lymph flow and cause edema in the ... ................
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