purpose: to report a uveal metastasis from infiltrative ductal carcinoma of breast. case report: a 45 year old woman with 9 year history of left breast ductal carcinoma and axillary lymph nodes involvement has found soft tissue are right eye uveal metastasis after 5 and 9 years respectively. conclusion: every patient with breast carcinoma should have complete eye examination at least every 6 mo...

The muscular arch of the axilla is described in a male cadaver on the left side. The condition may be the result of a factor affecting the intrauterin development. Because this muscular arch causes difficulties in staging lymph nodes, axillary surgery, thoracic outlet syndrome, shoulder instability or cosmetic problems, it should be kept in mind for axillary pathologies.

We report on a 59-year-old female patient with an infected vascular graft investigated with 18F FDG-PET/CT. The first of two studies showed FDG activity in the left deltoid and ipsilateral axillary lymph nodes explained by influenza vaccination the day prior. The second 18F FDG-PET/CT showed multiple FDG-avid lymph nodes on both sides of the diaphragm without tracer accumulation at the vaccinat...

BACKGROUND Metastasis in the axillary lymph nodes is the most important known prognostic factor for breast cancer. We aimed to investigate the contribution of the radioisotope tracer method to the dye-only method by performing sentinel lymph node biopsy on the same patient group during a single surgical session. METHODS Forty-two patients who underwent operations in our clinic from February 2...

BACKGROUND The development of sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer disease and the increasing of using adjuvant systemic therapy provide a rational reduction of axillary dissection in patients with Sentinel Lymph Nodes free from breast cancer cells. The aim of our study was to assess the state of the perisentinel lymph nodes removed and how these nodes can provide further information abo...

Cancer Control 601 The emergence of sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy as an alternative method to axillary dissection for staging the axilla in breast cancer patients has brought the value of axillary dissection into close scrutiny. In addition, it has stimulated the assessment of the biologic implications of micrometastatic disease to lymph nodes. Historical review of SLN technology demonstrate...

BACKGROUND Lymphedema is one of the major long-term complications of axillary dissection. This study was designed to investigate the risk factors that are predicted to effect the development of lymphedema after complete axillary dissection. METHODS Two hundred forty patients who had undergone modified radical mastectomy with complete axillary dissection were examined at least 18 months after ...

We agree with the authors that PET has limited indications in primary breast cancer, but we think that the role of PET in preoperative axillary staging deserves more discussion. In this field, the main drawback of PET is the high rate of false-negative results in the presence of a small volume of disease—specifically, axillary micrometastases—due to the limited spatial resolution of current PET...

Materials and Methods: Electronic medical records of 282 patients (467 breasts) undergoing mastectomy with immediate reconstruction at our institution from 2010–2012 were reviewed to collect clinical and post-operative data. Charts were analysed to determine the association between the absolute number of axillary lymph nodes removed and post reconstructive incidence of skin necrosis, cellulitis...

Monoclonal antibodies which bind to breast cancer have been used to evaluate the detection of metastatic disease in axillary lymph nodes. Three monoclonal antibodies (H59, H71, and H72) were reacted with tissue sections of primary tumors and axillary nodes from 24 mastectomy specimens and four specimens from glandular mastectomies for benign disease. All three antibodies had been shown to react...