Pretracheal nodes

Looks like

Nodes on the front of the windpipe, below the thyroid gland's isthmus.

What it does

Filter lymph from the thyroid and windpipe.

Keeping it well

Thyroid cancer can spread here; they are checked by ultrasound before thyroid surgery.

Related conditions

• African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)
• Cat-scratch disease
• Head and neck cancer
• Mpox (monkeypox)
• Rubella (German measles)
• Thyroid cancer
• Tonsillitis & quinsy