Quick Facts
Location: Posterior to the inferior vena cava.
Drainage: suprarenal glands, kidneys, ureters, testes/ovaries, uterus, and uterine tubes.
Direction of Flow: Right lumbar trunk > cisterna chyli > thoracic duct.
Related parts of the anatomy
Description:
Description: (Location & Drainage)
The retrocaval lymph nodes are a group of four to six nodes located posterior to the inferior vena cava, along the medial border of psoas major muscle and lateral to the sympathetic trunk (Földi et al., 2012).
The retrocaval lymph nodes drain lymph from the suprarenal glands, kidneys, ureters, testes/ovaries, uterus, and uterine tubes. Their efferent vessels join the right lymph trunk which in turn return the lymph to the cisterna chyli.
List of Clinical Correlates
—Lymphatic metastasis (urothelial carcinoma of upper two thirds of right ureter)
References
Földi, M., Földi, E., Strößenreuther, R. and Kubik, S. (2012) Földi's Textbook of Lymphology: for Physicians and Lymphedema Therapists. Elsevier Health Sciences.
Description:
Description: (Location & Drainage)
The retrocaval lymph nodes are a group of four to six nodes located posterior to the inferior vena cava, along the medial border of psoas major muscle and lateral to the sympathetic trunk (Földi et al., 2012).
The retrocaval lymph nodes drain lymph from the suprarenal glands, kidneys, ureters, testes/ovaries, uterus, and uterine tubes. Their efferent vessels join the right lymph trunk which in turn return the lymph to the cisterna chyli.
