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Question 1

What are the two types of lumbar (paraaortic) lymph nodes?

Answer 1

Left lumbar (left paraaortic) lymph nodes, Right lumbar (right paraaortic) lymph nodes

Question 2

What are the three types of mesenteric (preaortic) lymph nodes?

Answer 2

Celiac lymph nodes, Superior mesenteric lymph nodes, Inferior mesenteric lymph nodes

Question 3

What do the lumbar lymph nodes collect lymph from?

Answer 3

Organs of the posterior abdominal wall, Organs and walls of the pelvis, Lower limbs

Question 4

What do the lumbar lymph nodes give rise to?

Answer 4

Two lumbar lymph trunks (right and left).

Question 5

Where do the lumbar lymph trunks fuse, and what do they form?

Answer 5

They fuse to form the cisterna chyli at the level of L1–L2.

Question 6

What do mesenteric lymph nodes collect lymph from?

Answer 6

Gastrointestinal (GI) organs.

Question 7

What is the pathway of lymph from the mesenteric nodes?

Answer 7

Lymph from the mesenteric nodes forms an unpaired intestinal lymph trunk, which opens into the cisterna chyli.

Question 8

Into which lymph nodes do the suprarenal glands, kidneys, and abdominal part of the ureters drain?

Answer 8

The paraaortic (lumbar) lymph nodes.