Lymph node axillary metastasis from occult contralateral infiltrating lobular carcinoma arising in accessory breast: MRI diagnosis

Breast Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 305-307

  Capobianco, Giampiero ^a   Spaliviero, Bernardino ^b   Dessole, Salvatore ^a   Rocca, Paolo Cossu ^a   Cherchi, Pier Luigi ^a   Ambrosini, Guido ^a   Meloni, Francesco ^a   Meloni, Giovanni Battista ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b Castelfranco Veneto Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accessory breast tissue; Contralateral axillary lymph node metastasis; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER PAIN; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC BREAST; ECTOPIC BREAST CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAMMARY GLAND; MAMMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; THORAX WALL;

AXILLA; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247474694     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: 15244741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4741.2007.00428.x     Document Type: Article

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