Lymph node tracing
hi everyone. I’m curious about whether anyone has had their lymph basin traced with a biopsy for an enlarged node (not an slnb after diagnosis)? I’ve had 4 melanomas, 19 WLEs (melanomas and severely dysplastic) and more moderately and mildly atypical than I can count. I’ve got a groin lymph node that’s been enlarged for a few months, didn’t respond to antibiotics, etc. I see a surgeon today re: biopsy. It isn’t really near any of my melanoma sites (unless my body is extra weird). i’m thinking about asking the surgeon about tracing the lymph draining from the sites of my melanomas so that, if the node is positive for melanoma, we will have a better idea if it is distant or regional. any thoughts, feedback, experience? I also think that could help inform whether we’ve missed a melanoma (I have FAMMM so I have a bunch of moles that look atypical and my melanomas have all looked different from each other and not all that scary).