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Fig. 2 | World Journal of Surgical Oncology

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From: Reliability of predicting low-burden (≤ 2) positive axillary lymph nodes indicating sentinel lymph node biopsy in primary operable breast cancer — a retrospective comparative study with PET/CT and breast MRI

Fig. 2

Patient with a concordance between imaging results and pathological results. A 51-year-old female patient with invasive ductal carcinoma in the upper inner quadrant of the right breast. A–B Breast MRI depicted the round, heterogenous enhancing tumor, between 12 and 2 o’clock, middle-posterior, and 1/3 in depth, approximately 3.2 cm in assessment. T2WI and T1WI images showed a level 1 node (C–D, arrow). PET/CT showed intense FDG hypermetabolism in the right breast (SUV: 7.5 on early images) (E) suggesting right breast malignancy and a nodular FDG hypermetabolism in the right axilla (SUV: 3.8), suggesting right axillary lymphadenopathy. The final surgical pathology showed invasive ductal carcinoma with a metastatic lymph node (1/23)

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World Journal of Surgical Oncology

ISSN: 1477-7819

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