Imaging of regional spread of breast cancer by internal mammary lymphoscintigraphy, CT, and MRI. Clin Nucl Med 1992 Jun;17(6):482-4
Date
06/01/1992Pubmed ID
1617843DOI
10.1097/00003072-199206000-00011Scopus ID
2-s2.0-0026777887 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 9 CitationsAbstract
Forty women with breast cancer underwent imaging by internal mammary lymphoscintigraphy (IMLS), which was correlated with the results of CT and MRI of the chest. IMLS was performed and interpreted using the previously described methods of Ege. It identified 22 instances of ipsilateral internal mammary nodal involvement, none of which corresponded to cases of abnormally enlarged (diameter greater than 1.0 cm) internal mammary nodes on CT and/or MRI. Positive IMLS was associated with axillary nodal metastases in 15 out of 22 instances. The authors conclude that IMLS provides information on regional nodal spread of breast cancer that is not available with either CT/MRI imaging or axillary biopsy.
Author List
Turoglu HT, Janjan NA, Thorsen MK, Shaffer KA, Ritch PS, Hansen RM, Walker AP, Gai M, Collier BDMESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
AntimonyBreast Neoplasms
Colloids
Diagnostic Imaging
Evaluation Studies as Topic
Female
Humans
Lymph Nodes
Lymphatic Metastasis
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Middle Aged
Radionuclide Imaging
Technetium
Technetium Compounds
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
