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lymphadenopathy   enlargement of the lymph nodes (>1cm) due to infection, allergy, or neoplasm  
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acute infection nodes   nodes are bilateral, enlarged, warm, tender, and firm but freely movable [nodes receive and drain adjacent tissue]  
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malignancy   hard, fixed, unilateral, nontender [supraclavicular node 9discrete, nontender, hard node0]  
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preauricular   anterior to tragus of ear; drainage : scalp, forehead, lateral eyelids, eyes, upper face & external auditory canal; e.g., adenopathy with eye infection  
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postauricular   behind ear on mastoid process, drainage: parietal area of scalp & external auditory canal; adenopathy with otitis externa  
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occipital   base of the skull, drainage: parietal region of scalp; e.g, adenopathy with scalp lesion  
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tonsillar (retropharyngeal)   at the angle of the jaw [mandible], drainage: eyelids, frontotemporal skin, external auditory meatus, tympanic cavity, tonsils, posterior palate, floor of mouth & thyroid  
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submaxillary (submandibular)   half way between jaw angle & tip of mandible; drainage: lips, mouth, tongue, & submaxillary glands, adenopathy with oral cancer  
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submental   midline, behind the tip of the mandible; drainage (lips, mouth, tongue) adenopathy with oral cancer  
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superficial or anterior cervical   location: overlying the SCM muscle; drainage (skin of ear and neck)  
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posterior cervical chain   in the posterior triangle along the edge of the trapezius muscle; drainage: posterior scalp, posterior skin of neck and thyroid; e.g. adenopathy thyroid cancer, mononucleosis  
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deep cervical chain   under the SCM muscle, drainage: ear, larynx, thyroid, trachea & upper part of esophagus, e.g. adenopathy iwth laryngeal cancer  
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supraclavicular   above and behind the SCM muscle; drainage: upper ABD, lungs, breast and arm, r/o neoplasm (adenopathy here is usually BAD)  
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Adenopathy   Swelling or abnormal enlargement of the lymph nodes  
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