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  • Radiopaedia case ID: 84413
  • Image ID: 54726596
  • Image stack position: 76/94
  • Plane projection: Axial
  • Aux modality: T1 C+ fat sat
  • Study findings: Right breast with biopsy-proven malignancy and suspicious ipsilateral axillary lymph nodes at the level I, manifested by a rounded morphology, loss of fatty hilum, and heterogeneous enhancement.
  • Modality: MRI
  • System: Breast
  • Findings: Extended field-of-view sonography of the right axilla in the muscles transverse plane. Axillary lymph nodes are described according to their position relative to the pectoralis minor muscle (between yellow lines): In the first image, there are abnormal lymph nodes in levels I and II (absence of fatty hilum). In the second figure we have the hypothetic case in which level II is clear but not level I and III, this is called, discontinuous or skip metastases. An uncommon finding.
Date Published: 31st Mar 2021
Source https://radiopaedia.org/cases/axillary-lymph-nodes-surgical-levels
Author Israel Rodriguez-Suarez
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