Lymph Node Blood Vessels: Exit Route for Systemic Dissemination of Cancer

Volume 1 - Issue 1

Robert Skopec*

Received: September 01, 2018;   Published: September 07, 2018

DOI: 10.32474/CTBM.2018.01.000104

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Abstract

There are reports about the existence of meningeal lymphatic vessels in human and nonhuman primates (mormoset monkeys) and feasibility of noninvasively imaging and mapping them in vivo with high-resolution, clinical MRI. On T2-FLAIR and T1-weighted black-blood imaging, lymphatic vessels enhance with graduator, a gadolinium-based contrast agent with high propensity to extravasate across a permeable capillary endothelial barrier, but not with gadofosveset, a blood-pool contrast agent.

Keywords: Meningeal Lymphatic Vessels; The Cerebrospinal Fluid; The Dura Matter; The Superior Sagittal; Transverse Sinuses; Blood Brain Barrier; Chronic Inflammatory Response; Environmental Factors; Crc Risk

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