Prognostic Influence of Internal Mammary Node Drainage in Patients with Early-stage Breast Cancer.

Background: The management of internal mammary nodes (IMNs) during multidisciplinary treatment of breast cancer has been debated for the last four decades without unequivocal conclusion.

Patients And Methods: We retrospectively reviewed patients with breast cancer who underwent sentinel lymph node biopsy at our center from 2008 until 2012. IMN drainage was assessed as a potential risk factor for local and distant disease recurrence.

Predictive parameters for internal mammary node drainage in patients with early breast cancer.

Introduction: Breast cancer treatment currently represents one of the biggest challenges in clinical oncology. The gold standard for axillary lymph node management is to perform sentinel node biopsy to avoid axillary dissection and its sequelae. The detection of radiocolloid flow outside the axillary nodes is a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge.

Omission of adjuvant radiation therapy in elderly patients with low risk breast cancer undergoing breast-conserving surgery--two center experience.

Introduction: Breast cancer is, now often diagnosed in patients older than 70 years due to longer life expectancy. The usual treatment is mastectomy to obviate radiotherapy or breast-conserving surgery followed by radiotherapy. The aim of this study was to investigate the need for adjuvant radiotherapy in older patients and the consequences of omitting radiotherapy following conservative surgery.

Pseudoangiomatous stromal hyperplasia of breast: a case report.

Aim: To present a case of pseudoangiomatous stromal hyperplasia (PASH) and its findings under 1. mammography - MG, 2. ultrasonography - USG and 3.

The value of dynamic contrast enhanced breast MRI in mammographically detected BI-RADS 5 microcalcifications.

Aims: To evaluate the role of dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the diagnosis of BI-RADS-5 type of microcalcifications of the breast, to compare the size of the microcalcification lesions using mammography (MG) and MRI, and to determine the value of MRI in surgery for microcalcifications. The study also determines the morphology of microcalcification lesions, assesses kinetic curves and compare MRI features of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) for different histopathological grades.

Methods: Our group consisted of 32 patients with mammographically detected BI-RADS 5 microcalcifications.