The increased flow of lymph is due to the increased pressure in the abdominal capillaries.
It is invariably the result of some cause acting generally, such as renal disease, valvular defect of the heart, or an impoverished state of the blood; while a mere oedema is usually dependent upon some local obstruction to the return of blood or lymph, or of both, the presence of parasites within the tissue, such as the filaria sanguinis hominis or trichina spiralis, or the poisonous bites of insects.
Cells pass to the mesenteric lymph nodes where the immune response is amplified.
The six benign lesions included three false-positive mediastinal lymph nodes in one patient.
May affect lymph nodes but has definitely spread to other parts of the body.
