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Fig. 3 | 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

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Patient with a discordance between imaging results and pathological results. A 48-year-old female patient with invasive ductal carcinoma in the right breast. A–B Breast MRI showed a 2-cm round mass. C–D Axial T2WI and T1WI images showed no enlarged lymph nodes. E PET/CT demonstrated intense FDG hypermetabolism in the right breast (SUV: 2.29/2.81 on early/delayed images), suggesting breast malignancy and a nodular FDG hypermetabolism in the right axilla (SUV: 1.68/1.82), suggesting axillary lymphadenopathy. The final pathological report revealed invasive ductal carcinoma with three metastatic lymph nodes (3/19)

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World Journal of Surgical Oncology

ISSN: 1477-7819

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