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parasternal lymph node
Number of small nodes that lie along the course of the internal thoracic vessels; lymph enters these nodes from the anterior intercostal spaces, pericardium, diaphragm, liver & medial mammary gland.
-> efferent vessels pass upward to join the bronchomediastinal trunk
Related
internal thoracic vein; internal mammary vein
General
lymph node
References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.
Component-of
neck
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