Swollen lymph nodes in your neck, armpit, head, and other parts of the body often occur when your body is fighting an ...

At this point in the pandemic, you’re fairly familiar with the laundry list of possible COVID-19 symptoms, including a fever, chills, body aches, a dry cough, shortness of breath, and a loss of taste ...

Scrofula occurs when tuberculosis bacteria affects an area outside the lungs. The main symptom is swelling on one side of the neck due to swollen lymph nodes. Scrofula is uncommon in the United States ...

Columns share an author’s personal perspective. Q: I noted a swelling in the front of my neck and my doctor thinks it is my thyroid. She ordered some blood tests and an ultrasound. What can this be? A ...

A 25-year-old Vietnamese woman presented to a hospital reporting several weeks of swelling in her neck along with a mild fever that developed every afternoon. She told clinicians that she had no ...

Finding a lump in your neck can be scary and stressful. But some causes of neck lumps are more serious than others. Learn what you need to know about what may cause this symptom, when to worry, and ...

Usually, swollen chest lymph nodes are too deep in the chest for a person to feel them. Any swollen lymph nodes in the chest appear on imaging scans. Swelling can indicate an underlying condition.

Columns share an author’s personal perspective. Q: I noted a swelling in the front of my neck and my doctor thinks it is my thyroid. She ordered some blood tests and an ultrasound. What can this be? A ...