Ex vivo MRI of axillary lymph nodes in breast cancer.

Purpose: To provide a strategy for precise co-localization of lymph nodes on axillary lymph-node dissection (ALND) specimens both on pathology and MR. To identify nodal features suggestive of metastatic involvement on a node-to-node basis.

Materials And Methods: National Institutional review-board approved this prospective study of 18 patients with breast cancer referred for ALND.