Prepericardial nodes

Nodi prepericardiaci · Předosrdečníkové uzliny

Lymphatic & immune

Looks like

Small nodes in front of the heart's sac, just behind the lower breastbone.

Filter lymph from the front of the pericardium, the diaphragm and the liver surface.

May enlarge in lymphoma or cancers spreading from the abdomen; they show on CT.