HYPOTHESIS Fludeoxyglucose F 18 (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) can be used to predict axillary node metastases. DESIGN Case series. SETTING Comprehensive breast care center. PATIENTS Fifty-one women with 54 biopsy-proven invasive breast cancers. INTERVENTION Whole-body FDG-PET performed before axillary surgery and interpreted blindly. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Axillary FDG activ...

The prime objectives for axillary dissection are staging and treatment to cure. No physical examination, no imaging techniques, and no tumor markers can replace axillary dissection for staging. Further, axillary node status in potentially curable breast carcinomas is still considered the single best predictor of outcome and the primary determinant of the use of systemic therapy. Finally, locore...

Axillary lymph node dissection is standard management of axilla in invasive breast cancer. Radiotherapy also is important in local treatment. It is controversial as to whether axillary radiotherapy can displace axillary lymph node dissection. We performed a meta-analysis comparing axillary radiotherapy with axillary dissection. No significant difference was observed for disease free survival an...

Fibroadenoma is commonest breast lump constituting about 50% of all breast pathologies in young females. About 2-4% of the fibroadenomas more than 5 cm in size or 500 gm in weight and are called giant fibroadenomas [1]. The axillary ectopic breast tissue is common in women as 95% of women are having it [2]. The clinical presentation is during lactation when this tissue gets enlarged commonly ca...

METHODS The presurgical, noninvasive staging of axillary nodes for metastases was prospectively investigated in 68 patients who were diagnosed with primary breast cancer using PET with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG). Four patients had bilateral nodules; therefore, the total number of evaluable cases was 72. Visual analyses of attenuation-corrected PET images and standardized uptake values (SUVs) ...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the utility of the preoperative PET-CT using deformable image registration (DIR) in the treatment of patients with locally advanced breast cancer and to find appropriate radiotherapy technique for further adequate treatment of axillary nodal area. METHODS Sixty-five breast cancer patients who had level II, III axillary or supraclavicular lymph node metastasis on ¹⁸F-FDG...

BACKGROUND The aim of this explorative morphologic study was to determine the position and frequency of the valves in the axillary and subclavian veins. METHODS The position and frequency of the valves in the subclavian and axillary veins were studied macroscopically in 59 limbs from 30 cadavers. We measured in situ with a measuring tape, starting from the venous angle toward the initiation o...

OBJECTIVE The optimal choice of the arterial inflow site during operations for type A aortic dissection is not clearly defined. The aim of the prospective study was to identify whether cannulation of the right axillary artery instead of the femoral artery may improve the results of surgery for acute type A aortic dissection. METHODS Seventy consecutive patients were operated on because of acu...