Swollen lymph nodes can also be a side effect of certain drug classes that treat bacterial infection—such as Cephalosporins, ...

Less commonly, the pain—referred to as axillary pain—may be due to an autoimmune or arterial disease, nerve compression, and malignancies like breast cancer.The diagnosis of armpit pain may involve ...

The traditional treatment of a breast cancer is removal of the tumor through lumpectomy or mastectomy and a removal of armpit lymph nodes also known as a lymphnode dissection. This is to see if ...

In the transfer surgery, the patient's lymph nodes are transferred from the groin area to the armpit, or axilla, to replace the removed lymph nodes. The procedure involves extensive scar removal ...