OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic utility of sonographic elastography in differentiating reactive and metastatic axillary lymph nodes in breast cancer. METHODS A total of 64 lymph nodes (reactive, n = 33; metastatic, n = 31) from 62 patients with breast cancer were examined by both B-mode sonography and elastography from April to July 2009. Two experienced ra...

Cervical, axillary, cubital, inguinal, popliteal, and mesenteric lymph nodes from subjects of various ages who had died a sudden death were examined histologically. Care was taken to establish by morphometry the proportional distribution in lymph node cross-sections of cortical, paracortical, and medullary areas. In addition, numbers and surface areas of cross-sectioned germinal centres were re...

The coexistence of metastatic breast cancer and tuberculosis in axillary lymph nodes is very rare. We present the case of a 57-year-old woman with multifocal invasive ductal breast carcinoma in whom the resected axillary nodes were found to harbor both metastatic cancer and tuberculous lymphadenitis. Thorough investigation revealed no evidence of primary tuberculosis elsewhere. A quantiFERON TB...

Results: The median disease-free interval of 35 patients with IBTR was 66.7 month and the median tumor size of IBTR was 1.2cm. A total of 22 patients had previous SLNB, 8 patients had previous axillary lymph node dissection (ALND), and 5 patients had no previous axillary treatment. The average number of lymph nodes harvested at the time of primary surgery with SLNB and ALND was 2.9 and 20.8, re...

positive axillary lymph node on positron emission tomography/computed tomography in a thymoma patient with a tattoo. A 42-year old woman presented with a mediastinal tumour and left axillary lymphadenopathy (Fig. 1), 24 years after tattooing (Fig. 2). Thymectomy and diagnostic biopsy of the left axillary lymph nodes were performed. Histopathology showed a type A, Masaoka stage I thymoma, and re...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is an accurate method for axillary staging in patients with early breast cancer. The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy and the feasibility of SLNB in breast cancer patients who had received preoperative (neoadjuvant) chemotherapy. METHODS Patients with advanced breast cancer stage II or III who were treated with neoadjuv...

Cells from methylcholanthrene-induced tumor (MC-tumor), Ehrlich ascites cancer or mouse ascites hepatoma (MH-134) were subcutaneously implanted in dorsal area of mice to examine the specific cell mediated immunity following implantation. The migration index (MI) of lymphocytes was determined at various time periods after cell transplantation. The MI-activity increased under all three implantati...

positive lymph nodes, adjuvant radiotherapy to the breast or chest wall and regional lymph nodes is a standard treatment 1,2. To reduce local recurrence, basic oncologic principles dictate the inclusion of all potentially involved lymph nodes in the radiotherapy treatment fields. In locoregional breast treatment, conventional techniques for beam placement rely on anatomic landmarks seen on the ...