OBJECTIVE The routes of lymphatic drainage from a breast cancer are the axilla (the most frequent) and the extra axillary regions. Among the latter, there are the so-called intrammamary lymph nodes (IMLN). This study has aimed to assess the incidence of IMLNs in our patients and study the evolution of these cases with IMLN in the lymphoscintigraphy. MATERIAL AND METHODS Thirty-eight patients ...

BACKGROUND Identification and biopsy of the sentinel lymph node (SLN) in early-stage breast cancer (T1-T2N0) has become the standard method in the surgical treatment of the axilla, due to its accuracy in the evaluation of axillary lymph node status,thus avoiding extensive axillary lymph node dissection inpatients with negative SLN. The aim of our study is to highlight the role of 99mTc-nanocoll...

Current trends in patient care include the desire for minimizing invasiveness of procedures and interventions. This aim is reflected in the increasing utilization of sentinel lymph node biopsy, which results in a lower level of morbidity in breast cancer staging, in comparison to extensive conventional axillary dissection. Optimized lymphoscintigraphy with triangulated body marking is a clinica...

PURPOSE To investigate lymphatic drainage as measured by lymphoscintigraphy in the arms of patients undergoing either sentinel lymph node biopsy (SNB) or axillary lymph node dissection (ALND). MATERIAL AND METHODS From January 2001 to December 2002, 30 patients with unilateral invasive breast carcinoma underwent breast-conserving surgery with SNB and 30 patients with ALND. All patients receiv...

introduction: many radiotracers have been used for sentinel node mapping with acceptable results. the main difference between these radiotracers is the particle size. in the current study, we reported defective labeling of tc-99m antimony sulfide colloid which resulted in large particle size. methods: tc-99m-antimony sulfide colloid was used for axillary sentinel node mapping of 45 breast cance...

METHODS: The results of LNT for LEL were compared between the conventional single LNT group (control group; n = 21 limbs), the multiple LNFs group (n = 13), and the prefabricated lympho-venous shunt group (n = 13) in terms of volume improvement (the LEL index), lymphoscintigraphy findings, and the rate of functional survival and lymph node sizes (evaluated using ultrasonography) at 6 months aft...