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Sep 2026
Cervical lymphadenectomy impairs brain lymphatic clearance and synaptic proteostasis.
Meningeal lymphatic vessels drain brain fluid and waste into the cervical lymph nodes, but how removing these nodes during surgery affects brain health is unknown. Retrospective analysis of cancer patients who underwent neck lymphadenectomy without chemo-radiation therapy found that up to 25% developed mild-to-severe c...
Z. Khan, Cristina C. Clement, Paula Roßmüller et al.
· Neuron · 0 citations