Sacral lymph nodes

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Lymph: Sacral lymph nodes
Sacral is #3
Latin nodi lymphoidei sacrales
Gray's subject #180 704
Drains to common iliac lymph nodes
Dorlands/Elsevier n_09/12577145

The sacral lymph nodes are placed in the concavity of the sacrum, in relation to the middle and lateral sacral arteries; they receive lymphatics from the rectum and posterior wall of the pelvis.

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