Superior tracheobronchial nodes

Looks like

Nodes in the angle between the lower windpipe and each main bronchus.

What it does

Filter lymph from the lungs and bronchi before it rises to the paratracheal nodes.

Keeping it well

Checked in lung cancer staging; often blackened by inhaled soot and harmless calcified from old infections.

Related conditions

• Sarcoidosis
• Silicosis and coal workers' pneumoconiosis